The future of Waste
19 November 2009
Austria
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Registration: 18:30-19:00, Conference: 19:00-21:15
Location: WTC - World Trade Center, Metropolitan Boardroom of Amsterdam In Business, D tower 12th floor, Strawinskylaan 1, 1077 XW Amsterdam
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What is 'waste'? Waste is the result of production and consumption of material goods. Only a short while ago, waste was simply thrown away or burned. In most economic theories, the absorption capacity of 'the environment' is deemed to be infinite. With 6.5 billion people on the planet earth, we are confronted by the fact that this assumption is blatantly incorrect. As a result, we have no other choice than to rethink 'waste' and treat it as a new type of resource. However, can everything be re-used? Is it possible to just treat waste as a resource? What do we need to do, to do so effectively? If it were simple, wouldn't we have done so long before? During this event, some examples of effective and promising approaches to waste-management are presented.
Cradle to Cradle, what to do with it?
Second Generation Biofuels
Bitumen End of Life Solutions
Plastic to Oil
Registration: 18:30-19:00, Conference: 19:00-21:15
Location: WTC - World Trade Center, Metropolitan Boardroom of Amsterdam In Business, D tower 12th floor, Strawinskylaan 1, 1077 XW Amsterdam
http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=803(opens in new window)
REGISTER at
http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=803#tickets(opens in new window)
What is 'waste'? Waste is the result of production and consumption of material goods. Only a short while ago, waste was simply thrown away or burned. In most economic theories, the absorption capacity of 'the environment' is deemed to be infinite. With 6.5 billion people on the planet earth, we are confronted by the fact that this assumption is blatantly incorrect. As a result, we have no other choice than to rethink 'waste' and treat it as a new type of resource. However, can everything be re-used? Is it possible to just treat waste as a resource? What do we need to do, to do so effectively? If it were simple, wouldn't we have done so long before? During this event, some examples of effective and promising approaches to waste-management are presented.
Cradle to Cradle, what to do with it?
Second Generation Biofuels
Bitumen End of Life Solutions
Plastic to Oil