Main topics of interest for the submission of abstracts:
Re-use – from old to new:
- Current re-use activities in CE
- Re-use in formal waste management
- Informal re-use Activities
- Re-use and the social economy – experiences, good practice, effects and barriers
- Legal situation (waste management, re-use and second hand/ charity trade, case studies)
- Assessment of environmental, economic and social impacts of re-use
Status quo of informal sector activities in waste management and
possible strategies for formalisation:
- Informal collection and treatment of waste/ used items in CE
- The dimension of the informal sector
- Assessment of environmental, economic and social impacts of informal activities
- Informal collectors in CE – demography, (economic and social) status and prospects
- Role of minorities in the informal sector
- Re-use as a strategy for formalising the informal sector experiences, good practices
- Bottom-up and top-down strategies for formalisation – (dis)advantages
- Experiences and good-practices of formalisation (e.g. initiatives of informal collectors, transnational cooperations, cooperations between informal and formal sector)
- Formalisation and integration – do they go hand in hand?
Re-use – …towards an emerging market:
- Re-use as possibility for industrial sectors
- Re-use market evaluations
- Involvement of the informal sector as new possibility of supply
Abstracts shall not contain more than 500 characters including spaces.
SUBMISSION TO:
Sandra Meier
ARGE Waste Prevention,
Resources Protection and
Sustainable Developement Ltd.
Dreihackengasse 1, 8020 Graz
Email: sandra.meier@arge.at
www.transwaste.eu
