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MatER Meeting 2023

6th MatER Meeting & 7th International Conference on Final Sinks

“Waste Recovery and Final Sinks for a Sustainable Ecological Transition”

On June 5th – 7th the 6th MatER Meeting together with the 7th International Conference on Final Sinks took place at the Piacenza Campus of the Politecnico di Milano over “Waste Recovery and Final Sinks for a Sustainable Ecological Transition”.

The biannual MatER Meeeting conference arises from the fundamental goal of MatER that is providing a thorough, objective representation of technologies and policies for material and energy recovery from waste, covering the regulatory, strategic and technical-scientific aspects of sustainable waste management. The event has been organized with the scientific support of DICA (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Energy Department of the Politecnico di Milano.

With the 6th edition of the conference, it has been achieved the ambitious goal of merging the MatER Meeting with the International Conference on Final Sinks. The conjunction of the two events arises from the link between the fundamental goal of MatER and Final Sinks conferences. The former included all aspects related to technical and operating requirements and perspectives of options and policies for material and energy recovery from waste, while the latter focused on topics related to handling alternatives of material flows and stocks, either from resource exploitation and conservation aspects than from their environmentally sound perspectives. Both events share the common address of analyzing, as a whole, the potentials available for enhancing the transition towards more sustainable waste management systems.

The detailed program, together with the short abstract descriptions, can still be consulted at the dedicated page of the event at this link.

The Conference starts with first day morning dedicated to special 2 Keynote Lectures and 2 Panel Discussions.

Some works have been illustrated in the 4 oral sessions and the rest have been presented during the poster sessions, distributed among the 2 days.

The focus of the sessions have been:

June 5th, 2023

 

Morning PANEL DISCUSSIONS

 

●  Technical & Strategical – De Feo (Università di Salerno)

Simone Malvezzi (A2A Ambiente S.p.A.), Roberto Sancinelli (Montello S.p.A.)

●  Political & Institutional – Monica Tommasi (Amici della Terra)

Paola Molina (Regione Piemonte), Giuseppe Rossi (AURI Umbria), Alessandro Battaglino (Utilitalia), Elisabetta Perrotta (Assoambiente), Paolo Massarini (ATIA ISWA Italia), Fabio Poretti (CEWEP) 

 

Plenary session 1: Regulatory framework and Waste management

Chair: prof. Stefano Consonni (Politecnico di Milano) 

 

□ POSTER Session

June 6th 2023

 

●  Parallel session 2.A: Bio-Waste and Material recovery

Chair: prof. Mario Grosso & Lucia Rigamonti, (Politecnico di Milano)

●  Parallel session 2.B: Energy recovery

and Environmental aspects

Chair: proff. Stefano Cernuschi (Politecnico di Milano) 

 

Plenary session 3:  Innovative technologies

and Optimization strategies

Chair: prof. Federico Viganò (Politecnico di Milano)

 

□ POSTER Session

June 7th, 2023

Finally, on the 3rd day, a technical visit took place.

In order to allow the participants to have a deep knowledge of different waste treatment plants, in line with the purpose of the MatER study center, two 2 waste treatment facilities are chosen:

    1.         The biomethane production plant of Gavasse (RE) of IREN
    2.         The Plastic sorting & selection plant of Cadelbosco di Sopra (RE) of I.Blu

We truly want to thank the sponsors of the event

And the Media Partners for the support

It is possible to find the detailed program together with the main description of all the presented works at the
dedicated website of the #MatER23.