PROGRAM SUMMARY

EXHIBITION LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN PLUBLIC SERVICE MACHINERY 

Reception and registration

Screening of a documentary

Screening of the documentary “At the bottom* of Aral” of Laura Carrau Productions

Inauguration

David Bote Paz president of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment

Isaac Peraire Soler, director of the Catalan Waste Agency (Catalan Government)

Marc Serra Solè, delegate president of the Climate Action and Energy Transition Area of the Barcelona Provincial Council

Congress presentation

Maria Josep Picó, environmental journalist

Coffee break

Innovation Corner 

Municipal platform for fair payment and continuous improvement of waste collection and street cleaning services in Mataró

Albert Galán, Responsible for the management and control of contracts in Mataró city council

The economy of resources

Session I: Material crisis

Europe notes its high dependence on fundamental material resources for its economy. And the objectives of circularity and sovereignty, in a competition that combines economics and politics, require speeding up regulation and innovation in a decarbonisation horizon that generates uncertainty. This block proposes to understand the complexity, point out some solutions and know how some reference actors are approaching it.

• Energy transition and security of supply chains of clean energy technologies: the example of the critical minerals challenge.
  Mariano Marzo, Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Barcelona
• Strategic materials for the Spanish economy and action proposals for its recovery.
  Alicia Valero, director of the industrial ecology research group. CIRCE, Zaragoza University
• The revolution in the refining industry: from the fossil resource to the transformation towards multi-energy hubs (to generate zero-carbon products).
  Montserrat Vallverdú, coordinator of Renewable Fuels and Circular Economy of the Repsol Industrial Centers

Industry 4.0 and waste management

(from 11h25 to 13h30)

The digital revolution and the technologies that visualize it are part of a real universe with applications to waste management that will change processes and bring new solutions. This block proposes a concrete, clear and benefit-oriented understanding that we already know today, or in some cases at least sense, of the different technologies and their impacts on advanced industry and waste management.

Introduces and moderates: Sònia Llorens, Reasercher at the Tecnocampus Circular Economy and Sustainability Chair

• Building the context between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0
  Ángela Laguna, Director General of Innovation, Energy and Environment at SOCOTEC

• The traceability of the resource through the blockchain: what is it and how does this technology work?
  Juan Caubet (EURECAT). Director of IT&OT Security R&D Unit at Eurecat – Technology Centre of Catalonia

• Case study: traceability with blockchain in the plastic sector.
  PLASTIKS. André Vanyi-Robin, CEO
  
• The traceability of the resource through the material passport. 
  Sònia Llorens. Reasercher at the Tecnocampus Circular Economy and Sustainability Chair
• Case study: consumer information through the QR code. 
  ZYOSH system. Pepe Costa. Founder and CEO of Augusto Bellini
• Industry 4.0 in the waste management
  Sònia Llorens. Reasercher at the Tecnocampus Circular Economy and Sustainability Chair
• Case study: Use of robotics and artificial intelligence for waste sorting.
  PICVISA. Joan Manel Casamitjana. Chief Executive Officer
• Debate

The economy of resources

Session II: Energy and decarbonisation

Energy plays an essential role in the use of resources to decarbonize the economy and especially in some strategic sectors that are difficult to electrify. Renewable gases emerge as a solution with very favorable impacts, but it does not seem that Spain wants to decisively take advantage of the opportunity.

• Material and energy recovery of waste in the circular economy.
  Cristophe Cord’homme, CEO/president of WasteTT
• Biomethane in the energy transition: ambition and barriers.
  David Fernández, former vice-president of AEBIG
• State of the art of waste recovery technologies and their potential contribution to decarbonization objectives.
  Soraya Prieto, Director of the Circularity Area of TECNALIA

Lunch 

Innovation Corner 

Future technologies for decarbonisation

Accelerating innovation is critical for industries. How to combine the objectives of decarbonisation in an environment of increasing industrial costs with technological opportunities, are the drivers of these two practical cases that we will analyse and of which we will hear about in the future

Introduces and moderates: Concha Zorrilla, senior consultant at Agbar-Veolia

• Waste recovery with CO₂ capture (EOCENE project).
  Pedro Javier Ramos, head of Clean Energy and Environmental Footprint at  Cosentino
• Waste recovery as a decarbonisation vector for the industry.
  Esther Ventura, sustainability manager of Ferimet (Celsa Group)

Coffee and visit to machinery exhibition

Economic instruments in waste management

Economic instruments are the key to waste management policy. The new waste law and the regulations that are being rolled out represent an advance with respect to the previous situation. But they generate doubts and their ambition may not be sufficient to achieve the objectives and to ensure the equitable distribution of the costs.

• The new landfill tax and waste incineration as an economic instrument. Assessment of its entry into force.
  Juanjo Gil, manager of the Consortium for Water and Waste of La Rioja

• Extended producer responsibility under review: proposals for improvement.
  Sergio Sastre, material flow and integrated assessment specialist at ENT

• Pay-as-you-throw: the keys to its (effective) design and application.
  Cristina Casablanca, Manager of the Tax Management Agency of the Barcelona Provincial Council.

• The 5 certainties and the 5 doubts about the pay-as-you-throw and fair rate systems (360°)
  Maria Calaf, environmental consultant at ENT

New tendencies for the plastic

We live in a permanent contradiction between the value of plastics and the environmental and social impacts they generate. A part of the solution seems to come from its origin and its use in a circular scheme. This block seeks to find some answers: Is this supposed neutrality real? What path do we have left to go? What is the cost and learning curve?

Presents and moderates: Victoria Ferrer, Director General of Gremi de Recuperació de Catalunya

• Session 1: Bioplastics. Round table:
  ASOBIOCOM. Jordi Simón, technical manager
  Prime Biopolymers. Iván Navarro, R&D manager
  AIMPLAS. Johana Andrade, researcher in in the area of biodegradation and compostability
• Session 2: Chemical recycling
  Eva Verdejo. Head of the recycling and environment business line at AIMPLAS (Technological Institute of Plastic)
  Asier Asueta, Researcher at GAIKER Technological Centre

Innovation Corner 

Technology and knowledge for the continuous improvement of urban services (from 15:45 to 16h)

Aporta, Montse Masanas, Innovation Manager

Management of bad odor episodes through citizen science (from 16h to 16h30)

NasApp. Isabel de Lucas, product manager Nasapp at EURECAT

MedWaves, challenges and opportunities of the circular economy in the Mediterranean region (from 16h30 to 16h45)

MedWaves (UNEP/MAP Regional Activity centre for SCP):
Jesús Maestro, Director

Screening of the documentary

Screening of the documentary “Voices In The Water” from the Suncine Festival (20 min)

End of sessions

Presentation of the finalist papers “Alfonso Maíllo”

Cities of the world: Successful cases in waste prevention and reuse

The objectives of selective collection are today one of the great challenges and an obligation for local entities, in the path of what regulations mark us. High efficiency affects processes, the relationship with citizens, and also technology. We currently have proven experiences and results that consolidate a line of work. Here we will share the experience of cities of different sizes that mark the way forward

Case 1: Pamplona Region: putting reuse at the heart of its waste management policies and with experience in the pioneering textile fraction in Spain. Ángel Álvarez, responsible for waste collection for the Commonwealth of the Pamplona Region.
Case 2: ENVIE: Matching solidarity and the environment, with more than 120.000 tons of WEEE repaired and reused.
Guido Locatelli, Chairman and CEO at ENVIE (France)

Coffee break

Selective collection experiences in high-efficiency containers

The objectives of selective collection constitute today one of the great challenges and an obligation for local entities, in the path of what the regulations mark us. High efficiency affects processes, the relationship with citizens, and technology. We currently have proven experiences and results that consolidate a line of work and we will share with the audience the experience of three cities of different sizes that mark the way forward.

Introduces and moderates: Ignacio Aguilar, technical manager of the Ciudad Real Waste Consortium

Case 1: Vitoria-Gasteiz. Joseba Sánchez, head of Waste Management
Case 2: Santiago de Compostela, Xesús Domínguez, councilor for Environmental Sustainability, Animal Rights, Basic Community Services, Parks and Gardens and Roads and Works
Case 3: Calvià. Pedro Antonio García, Director of Environment of Calvià 2000
Case 4: Montmeló. Lourdes Ariza, director of the Business Area at Servicios Ambientales del Vallès Oriental

How innovation and public traction encourage the market in waste management

There is a widespread belief that the private sector of services and waste management is the one that really innovates, the dynamic and competitive one and that the administration only plays a static role, or even that the public business (as usual) wastes talent and the ability to improve the market.

We will talk about it and we will ask ourselves if we have enough evidence that places the public administration as a driver of innovation. And if it is precisely talent and public resources that drive the market and promote technological change.

Introduces and moderates: Carlos Vázquez, Director of Cleaning and Waste Management Services at Barcelona City Council

Round table:
– Madrid City Council. Víctor Manuel Sarabia, general manager of Cleaning and Waste Services
– FCC Medio Ambiente. Joan Carles Pérez, head of the technical department of Catalonia
– Renault Trucks España. David López, director of e-mobility business
– Volvo Trucks España. Núria Álvarez, electromobility manager

Table of political representatives responsible for waste management

The local agenda that comes out of the new government teams will have to place waste management among its priorities. Fulfillment of the objectives requires greater courage and decisions that will require political consensus and work closer to the citizenry. Is the policy prepared to take the leap and lead the necessary change or will it continue to absorb the largest municipal budget without addressing the underlying challenges: selective collection models, financing and fees, education and awareness, extended responsibility systems and waste treatment , which continues to be local (mutualized) competition if we want to move towards a circular economy

Introduces and moderates: : Javier Domínguez, executive president of SOGAMA

– Luis José Rodríguez del Pozo. Deputy and president of the Malaga Waste Consortium
– José Ignacio Asensio Bazterra. Deputy and president of the Gipuzkoa Waste Consortium
– José María Infante Olarte. General Director of Environmental Quality of the Government of La Rioja and president of the Water and Waste Consortium of La Rioja
– Isaac Peraire Soler. Director of the Waste Agency of Catalonia

Top 10 messages of RECUWASTE 2023 (summary of the Congress)

Carles Salesa, director of the Maresme Circular

Award for innovative work on waste management “Alfonso Maíllo”

Closing

Visit to the Maresme Integrated Centre for Waste Recovery and its educational and informative facilities (includes lunch)

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