The circular economy of resources: anticipating the future 

Tecnocampus Mataró, 14th-15th November de 2023

Host and presenter: Maria Josep Picó, environmental journalist

PROGRAM SUMMARY

14th November

 

8:30 Reception and registration
9:00 Screening of a documentary
Inauguration
Congress presentation
AUDITORIUM
9:45 Opening session

Rethinking the economic system: growth or well-being

Katherine Trebeck. Political economist and writer .

AUDITORIUM
10:30 Coffee break
 FOYER
10:40
INNOVATION CORNER

Municipal platform for fair payment and continuous improvement of waste collection and street cleaning services in Mataró


CORNER FOYER
11:15

THE ECONOMY OF RESOURCES

Session I:  Material risis

Session II: Energy and descarbonisation

AUDITORIUM

 

11:15

CRITICAL FRACTIONS

Session I: Textile

Session II: Packaging

LAIA ARQUERA ROOM
11:25 A 13:30

INDUSTRY 4.0 AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 

CORNER FOYER

14:15 Lunch
FOYER
14:30
INNOVATION CORNER

Tecnologías de futuro para la descarbonización

CORNER FOYER
15:15 Coffee and visit to machinery exhibition
         AT THE STREET
15:45

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

AUDITORIUM
15:45

NEW TENDENCIES FOR THE PLASTIC

Session 1: Bioplastics

Session 2: Chemical recycling

LAIA ARQUERA ROOM

15:45 
INNOVATION CORNER

Technological solutions from Aporta Cooperativa

 

CORNER FOYER
17.45 End of sessions

15th November

 

9:00 Presentation of the finalist papers “Alfonso Maíllo”

The 10 projects selected for the exhibition

   AUDITORIUM
9:45 Selective collection experiences in high-efficiency containers
    AUDITORIUM
10:45 Coffee break
 FOYER

 10:50

INNOVATION CORNER

Circular Fashion Pact

CORNER FOYER
11:30 Cities of the world: Successful cases in waste prevention and reuse

Case 1:  

Case 2: Pamplona: an experience that sets a trend in the textile sector. Mancomunidad de Pamplona.

Case 3: 

    AUDITORIUM

11:30 How innovation and public traction encourage the market in waste management

 

CORNER FOYER
12:45 Table of political representatives responsible for waste management
    AUDITORIUM
14:00 Top 10 messages of RECUWASTE 2023 (summary of the Congress)
    AUDITORIUM
14:15 Award for innovative work on waste management “Alfonso Maíllo”

     AUDITORIUM
14:20 Closing

14:30 End of the congress

14:30 Visit to the Maresme Integrated Centre for Waste Recovery and its educational and informative facilities (includes lunch)

Simultaneous translation at all events held in the AUDITORIUM.

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EXHIBITION LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN PLUBLIC SERVICE MACHINERY 

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8:30h

Reception and registration

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9:00h
Auditorium

Screening of a documentary

Inauguration

President of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment

Congress presentation

Director of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment

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9:45
Auditorium

Opening session

Rethinking the economic system: growth or well-being

Indicators of economic growth based on GDP have been strongly questioned for a long time and do not reflect the social or environmental health or well-being of societies. Nothing is simple, but perhaps ensuring the prosperity and well-being of the people could be the central objective of economic policies and the nuclear element of a new social contract.

Katherine Trebeck. Political economist, writer and promoter of the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership (WEGo). She has worked with Oxfam in developing the Humankind Index

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10:30h
Foyer

Coffee break

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10:40h
Foyer

Innovation Corner 

Municipal platform for fair payment and continuous improvement of waste collection and street cleaning services in Mataró

Albert Galán, Responsible for the management and control of contracts in Mataró city council

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11:15h
Auditorium

The economy of resources

Session I: Material crisis

Europe notes its high dependence on fundamental material resources for its economy. And the objectives of circularity and sovereignty, in a competition that combines economics and politics, require speeding up regulation and innovation in a decarbonisation horizon that generates uncertainty. This block proposes to understand the complexity, point out some solutions and know how some reference actors are approaching it.

  • The keys to understanding the material resources crisis and how Europe is tackling it.
  • Strategic materials for the Spanish economy and action proposals for its recovery.
    Alicia Valero, director of the industrial ecology research group. CIRCE, Zaragoza University
  • The revolution in the refining industry: from the fossil resource to the transformation towards multi-energy hubs (to generate zero-carbon products).
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11:15h
Laia Arquera Room

Critical fractions

Session 1: Textile

The textile emerges as one of the star fractions that will require a thorough review of its (eco)design and business models. Innovation and the industry’s response to its climate responsibilities are part of the equation, but local entities and the social economy must ensure an adjusted balance between costs, benefits and value.

  • Prevention, collection and reuse of textile waste
  1. Prevention of waste thanks to the extension of the useful life (durability, repairability) Decathlon
  2. Collection and reuse: how to optimize it and ensure maximum profit of this selective collection
    • Classification and recycling of the non-reusable textile fraction
    1. Supra-classification: how to manage non-reusable waste to keep it in the textile cycle Coleo
    2. Mechanical and chemical recycling options
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      11:25h
      Corner Foyer

      Industry 4.0 and waste management

      (from 11h25 to 13h30)

      The digital revolution and the technologies that visualize it are part of a real universe with applications to waste management that will change processes and bring new solutions. This block proposes a concrete, clear and benefit-oriented understanding that we already know today, or in some cases at least sense, of the different technologies and their impacts on advanced industry and waste management.

      Introduces and moderates: Sònia Llorens, director of the Tecnocampus Circular Economy Chair.

      • Building the context between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0
        Ángela Laguna, Director General of Innovation, Energy and Environment at SOCOTEC
      • The traceability of the resource through the blockchain: what is it and how does this technology work?
        Juan Caubet (EURECAT). Director of IT&OT Security R&D Unit at Eurecat – Technology Centre of Catalonia
      • Case study: traceability with blockchain in the plastic sector.
        NOZAMA. André Vanyi-Robin, CEO
      • The traceability of the resource through the material passport. 
        Sònia Llorens. Circular Economy Chair
      • Case study: consumer information through the QR code. 
        ZYOSH system. Pepe Costa. Founder and CEO of Augusto Bellini
      • Industry 4.0 in the waste management
        Sònia Llorens. Circular Economy Chair
      • Case study: Use of robotics and artificial intelligence for waste sorting.
        PICVISA. Joan Manel Casamitjana. Chief Executive Officer
      • Debate
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          12:45h
          Auditorium

          The economy of resources

          Session II: Energy and decarbonisation

          • Material and energy recovery of waste in the circular economy.
          • Biomethane in the energy transition: ambition and barriers.
            David Fernández, vice-president of AEBIG
          • State of the art of waste energy recovery technologies
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            12:45h
            Laia Arquera Room

            Critical fractions

            Session 2: Packaging

            • Questions and answers on the EU Proposal for a Regulation.
              Cesar Aliaga, Head of the Packaging and Circular Economy Unit, ITENE

            • Round table: Implications of the packaging Spanish Royal Decree

            Introduces and moderates: Paz Orviz, manager of COGERSA (Asturias)

            Participants:

            • DANONE, Borja Lafuente, head of sustainability at Danone Iberia
            • ESGREM, Jordi Vilaró, manager of the Mancomunitat d’Escombraries de l’Urgellet
            • ECOEMBES
            • Waste Agency of Catalonia. Jordi Picas, Head of the Infrastructure Management Department
            • Inèdit. Sofia Garín, project manager
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            14:15h
            Foyer

            Lunch 

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            14:30h
            Corner Foyer

            Innovation Corner 

            Future technologies for decarbonisation

            Accelerating innovation is critical for industries. How to combine the objectives of decarbonisation in an environment of increasing industrial costs with technological opportunities, are the drivers of these two practical cases that we will analyse and of which we will hear about in the future

            Introduces and moderates: Concha Zorrilla, Project manager at Agbar-Veolia

            • Waste recovery with CO2 capture (EOCENE project). Luis Hens, Director of Sustainability at Cosentino
            • Waste recovery as a decarbonisation vector for the industry.
            • Debate
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            15:15h
            Outdoors

            Coffee and visit to machinery exhibition

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            15:45
            Auditorium

            Economic instruments in waste management

            Economic instruments are the key to waste management policy. The new waste law and the regulations that are being rolled out represent an advance with respect to the previous situation. But they generate doubts and their ambition may not be sufficient to achieve the objectives and to ensure the equitable distribution of the costs.

            • The new landfill tax and waste incineration as an economic instrument. Assessment of its entry into force.
              Juanjo Gil, manager of the Consortium for Water and Waste of La Rioja
            • Extended producer responsibility under review: proposals for improvement.
              Sergio Sastre, material flow and integrated assessment specialist at ENT
            • Pay-as-you-throw: the keys to its (effective) design and application.
              Cristina Casablanca, Manager of the Tax Management Agency of the Barcelona Provincial Council.
            • The 5 certainties and the 5 doubts about the pay-as-you-throw and fair rate systems (360°)
              Maria Calaf, environmental consultant at ENT
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            Laia Arquera Room

            New tendencies for the plastic

            We live in a permanent contradiction between the value of plastics and the environmental and social impacts they generate. A part of the solution seems to come from its origin and its use in a circular scheme. This block seeks to find some answers: Is this supposed neutrality real? What path do we have left to go? What is the cost and learning curve?

            Presents and moderates: Teresa Guerrero, head of the Department of Promotion of Selective Collection at the Waste Agency of Catalonia

            • Session 1: Bioplastics. Round table:
              ASOBIOCOM. Jordi Simón, technical manager
              Prime Biopolymers. Iván Navarro, project manager
            • Session 2: Chemical recycling
              Eva Verdejo. Head of the recycling and environment business line at AIMPLAS (Technological Institute of Plastic)
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            Corner Foyer

            Innovation Corner 

            Technological solutions from Aporta Cooperativa

            Aporta

            MedWaves activities

            MedWaves (UNEP/MAP Regional Activity centre for SCP)

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            17:45

            End of sessions

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            9:00
            Auditorium

            Presentation of the finalist papers “Alfonso Maíllo”

            The 10 projects selected for the exhibition

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            9:45
            Auditorium

            Selective collection experiences in high-efficiency containers

            The objectives of selective collection constitute today one of the great challenges and an obligation for local entities, in the path of what the regulations mark us. High efficiency affects processes, the relationship with citizens, and technology. We currently have proven experiences and results that consolidate a line of work and we will share with the audience the experience of three cities of different sizes that mark the way forward.

            Introduces and moderates: Ciudad Real Waste Consortium

            Case 1: Vitoria-Gasteiz
            Case 2: Montornès del Vallès
            Case 3:

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            Foyer

            Coffee break

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            10:50
            Corner Foyer

            Innovation Corner 

            Circular Fashion Pact

            Few initiatives with a value chain perspective have gone as far as this Agreement to design a collaboration model applied to the textile sector. Future extended responsibility systems will further their development by absorbing the learning from this experience.

            Pilar Chiva, director of the Circular Economy Area at the Waste Agency of Catalonia

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            11:30
            Auditorio

            Cities of the world: Successful cases in waste prevention and reuse

            The objectives of selective collection are today one of the great challenges and an obligation for local entities, in the path of what regulations mark us. High efficiency affects processes, the relationship with citizens, and also technology. We currently have proven experiences and results that consolidate a line of work. Here we will share the experience of three cities of different sizes that mark the way forward

            Case 1:
            Case 2: Pamplona: an experience that sets a trend in the textile sector. Mancomunidad de Pamplona.
            Case 3:

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            Corner Foyer

            How innovation and public traction encourage the market in waste management

            There is a widespread belief that the private sector of services and waste management is the one that really innovates, the dynamic and competitive one and that the administration only plays a static role, or even that the public business (as usual) wastes talent and the ability to improve the market.

            We will talk about it and we will ask ourselves if we have enough evidence that places the public administration as a driver of innovation. And if it is precisely talent and public resources that drive the market and promote technological change.

            Introduces and moderates: Carlos Vázquez, Director of Cleaning and Waste Management Services at Barcelona City Council

            Round table:
            Machinery companies

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            Auditorio

            Table of political representatives responsible for waste management

            The local agenda that comes out of the new government teams will have to place waste management among its priorities. Fulfillment of the objectives requires greater courage and decisions that will require political consensus and work closer to the citizenry. Is the policy prepared to take the leap and lead the necessary change or will it continue to absorb the largest municipal budget without addressing the underlying challenges: selective collection models, financing and fees, education and awareness, extended responsibility systems and waste treatment , which continues to be local (mutualized) competition if we want to move towards a circular economy

            Introduces and moderates: : Javier Domínguez, executive president of SOGAMA

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            14:00
            Auditorium

            Top 10 messages of RECUWASTE 2023 (summary of the Congress)

            Carles Salesa, director of the Maresme Consortium for Municipal Solid Waste Treatment

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            14:15
            Auditorium

            Award for innovative work on waste management “Alfonso Maíllo”

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            14:20
            Auditorium

            Closing

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            14:30
            Auditorium

            End of the congress

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            14:30 a 17:00

            Visit to the Maresme Integrated Centre for Waste Recovery and its educational and informative facilities (includes lunch)

            Simultaneous translation at all events held in the AUDITORIUM.

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