Waste Management and Climate Change: What happens with YOUR waste?
2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Waste Management and Climate Change: What happens with YOUR waste?
Friday, 01. September
Chat
90
minutes
English
Supported by
City of Vienna
Your Waste - and what happens to it - has an impact on climate change.
Solutions are: waste prevention, high quality material recycling and smart thermal treatment (for example in
Waste to Energy Plants) of the remaining non-recyclable mixed waste. No waste should go directly to a landfill.
Austria demonstrates long-term best practise examples in the waste management sector for years, however
worldwide, high amounts of waste directly go to landfills untreated. This causes about 10 % of the global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore, it is crucial to collaborate - nationwide and across boundaries - to develop an optimised and
climate-friendly waste management.
Solutions are: waste prevention, high quality material recycling and smart thermal treatment (for example in
Waste to Energy Plants) of the remaining non-recyclable mixed waste. No waste should go directly to a landfill.
Austria demonstrates long-term best practise examples in the waste management sector for years, however
worldwide, high amounts of waste directly go to landfills untreated. This causes about 10 % of the global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore, it is crucial to collaborate - nationwide and across boundaries - to develop an optimised and
climate-friendly waste management.
Speaker
Jürgen Czernohorszky
Executive City Councillor for Climate, Environment, Democracy and Personnel City of Vienna
Speaker
Martina Ableidinger
Deputy Head of MA 48 MA 48 - City of Vienna's Department for Waste Management, Street Cleaning & Vehicle Fleet
Speaker
Marion Huber-Humer
Head of the Institute of Waste Management and Circularity BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Supported by
City of Vienna
Speaker
Jürgen Czernohorszky
Executive City Councillor for Climate, Environment, Democracy and Personnel City of Vienna
Speaker
Martina Ableidinger
Deputy Head of MA 48 MA 48 - City of Vienna's Department for Waste Management, Street Cleaning & Vehicle Fleet
Speaker
Marion Huber-Humer
Head of the Institute of Waste Management and Circularity BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna