ISWA Beacon Conference on Sanitary Landfills
Versión en Español
17, 18 and 19 June 2008
Costa Salguero Center
Buenos Aires City - Argentina
 
  Preliminary Program

10.00 Registration
11.00 Opening ceremony
 
Authorities of the Government of the City and Province of Buenos Aires
Mr. Ricardo Rollandi, President of ARS
Dr. Alberto Bianchini, President of ABRELPE
Dr. Atilio Savino – Vice-president of ISWA
12.00 The experience in Singapur - Off-shore Sanitary Landfill
  Mr. Lee Yuen Hee, National Environment Agency – Singapore
  Sanitary Landfills State-of-the-Art
  Mr. Antonis Mavropoulos - ISWA Working Group on Sanitary Landfills
  The situation of sanitary landfills in Ecuador and the biogas
potencial of sanitary landfills
  Ing. Roberto Urquizo Calderón, M2M Association - Vice-chair of the Sanitary Landfills Subcommittee of Ecuador
  Integrated Solid Waste Management Regional Plan for Valle de Aburrá
  Ing. Diana Fernanda Castro Henao - Colombia
15.00 “Consent Processes and Sanitary Landfill Opening”
  Eng. Greg Vogt – ISWA Managing Director
15.30 “The importance of social communication and consensus
in sanitary landfill projects”
  Dkfm. Christian Stiglitz - ISWA Working Group on Communication and Social Issues – President and CEO of ARA AG, Austria
  Social communication planning: experience in “Partido de la Costa” Argentina
  Edmundo Ferretti - ISWA Working Group on Communication and Social Issues
  Experience in Bogotá
  Raúl Castillejo Martinez – General Manager of Proactiva Doña Juana Colombia
  Characteristics of the Institutional Capacity of USW
Integrated Management in the Province of Buenos Aires
  Mr. Lautaro Lorenzo – ARS Working Group on Communication and Social Issues
17.15 Methane to Markets Initiative: present situation and advances
Presentation of Gas Projects in Argentina: Bahia Blanca and Escobar
  Rachel Goldstein - Landfill Methane Outreach Program - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM)
  Mr. Hernán Carlino
  Case Study: Biogas recovery project at Norte III Sanitary Landfill, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Ing. Juan Pablo Weihs

10.00 Perspective of Solid Waste in Brazil – Development of Waste Disposal and Participation of the Private Sector in Overcoming the Existing Shortfall
  Mr Carlos R V Silva Filho - ABRELPE
10.25 Sasa Case (Veolia Serviços Ambientais)
Historical Development (1981-2008), Description of Available Facilities,
Biogas Better Use and Lixiviate Evaporation, Sale of Carbon Credits to Holland’s Government
  Mr. Martin Masola - Veolia Serviços Ambientais
10.50 Caieiras Case (Esencis)
Project’s Potential and Multi-Technology Services, Description of Available Facilities, Highlighting the Quantity of Household Waste Received, Biogas Better Use and Projects in Progress, Sale of Carbon Credits.
  Mr. Luzia Galdeano - Essencis
11.45 Diversion of organic waste from landfills-
The Italian experience
  Mr Leonardo Ghermandi, President, and Mr. David Newman, Director of the Italian Composting Consortium (CIC)
  Case Study - Barriers and advantages for incineration in Greece:
a case study to outline the social context of waste management
  Mr. Antonis Mavropoulos President of EPEM, Greece (to be confirmed)
  The “Ecoparque” experience in Barcelona  - Waste-to-energy and Biological Treatment (speaker to be confirmed)
  Urbaser SA
 

Case Study: Austria
Vienna Clean City

  Mr. Christoph Scharff - ARGEV
15.00 Santiago de Chile case study:
transfer, railway transportation and sanitary landfill
  Urbaser S.A.
  Final waste disposal in the metropolitan area of Rosario, Argentina
  Ms Sc Ing. Jorge Pablo Seghezzo, Municipality of Rosario, Argentina
16.00 Companies – Presentations:
Durability and performance of mineral barriers in relation to Trisoplast
  Mr. Eugène Timmermans
  Nord Engineering
  Opportunity of CDM and Carbon Credits generation - EcoSecurities
  Lic. Francisco Ocampo - to be confirmed
17.15 Discussion:
Are sanitary landfills a solution in Argentina?
   
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