Waste-to-Resources 2013

Increasing costs for raw materials and energy and demand for sustainable, climate protective waste treatment and recycling techniques have placed technologies like bio-methanation and material recovery facilities (MRF) in the spot of interest. MBT / AWT develops from a landfill combined pre-treatment to a material selection technology providing various secondary raw materials and energy from municipal solid waste.

Having participants from about 40 countries in 2009 and 2011, Waste-to-Resources is world’s largest conference on MBT & MRF. Becoming a joint event of Wasteconsult international and the German association of MBT operators (ASA), a further growth is expected for 2013. The combination of conference, commercial exhibition and site visits will make Waste-to-Resources 2013 again a prime event for operators, authorities, consultants and technology providers. The conference will cover topics like

MBT & MRF in different countries
Targets, legal aspects, boundary values
Basics, possibilities, limits and relevance of MBT & MRF
Current and future relevance of MBT & MRF
Competition and material (waste) streams in Europe
Functionality, economic efficiency & life cycle balance
Experience with new and rebuilt plants
New developments in machine and system engineering
Emissions and their treatment
Landfilling of MBT-waste
Conditioning, use and sale of MBT & MRF output fractions (e.g. RDF, metals)
Power plants for refuse derived fuel (RDF)
Latest sorting technologies
Process control and analytics
Waste-to-Resources 2013 will be held in Hanover (Germany) from the 11th to 14th of June 2013. If you are interested to become an author at Waste-to-Resources 2013, please submit the following information until the 6th of December 2012 to info {at} wasteconsult.de

Title and qualified abstract (1-2 pages) of the paper (English or German only)
Institution, Name, address, Phone, FAX and personal email-address
The selection of the papers and the symposium programme will be finalised in January 2011. The leading authors / presenters (one person per paper) of the accepted papers for oral presentations will get free access to the conference, which also includes lunch, dinner and the conference proceedings. Transport and accommodation have to be self-organised and paid by the authors.

Papers for the conference proceedings have to be in English or German. The Powerpoint presentations on the conference must be in English, but due to the simultaneous translation the oral presentation can be held in French, Spanish or German as well.

Hanover has an international airport and is easy to reach by train, car and airplane.