IWWG Task Group on
INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Chair: Prof. Evangelos Gidarakos
Backround
Industry, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘‘intelligent or clever working”, as well as the ‘‘particular branches of production labour”. Although industry has developed modern societies beyond imagination, it is accompanied by a rather problematic phenomenon, which is waste production, much of which features hazardous properties.
Industrial solid wastes are generally grouped as:
• biodegradable (originating from agro industries and food/ fruit processing, aqua-cultivates, forestry, hunting and fishing),
• non-biodegradable (originating from the mining sector, re-fineries and steel plants),
• hazardous (originating mainly from biological and chemical industries).
Aims and objectives
The objective of the IWWG Task Group on Industrial Waste Management is to bring together professionals interested in the advancement and application of technologies and methods for managing industrial and hazardous waste. The annual meeting of this Task Group will be attended by a wide range of environmental professionals from consulting, manufacturing, federal state and local government agencies, utilities and universities. The Task Group aims to coordinate studies, research and experience on the most recent international trends and work in industrial waste regulation and policies.
Specifically, the Task Group will focus on the following hazardous industrial waste treatment topics:
• Controversial issues in industrial waste management
• Industrial ecology and bioassay
• In-plant waste management
• In-plant waste disposal
• On-site waste monitoring
• Pollutant analyses
• Pollution prevention
• Industrial site remediation
• Groundwater decontamination
• Metal waste treatment
• Chemical treatment
• Photographic processing waste treatment
• Toxic waste treatment
• Explosives treatment
• Landfill leachate treatment
The main scope is to emphasize in-depth presentation of environmental pollution sources, waste characterization, control technologies,management strategies, facility innovation, process alternatives, costs, case studies, effluent standards, and future trends for the major hazardous and non-hazardous operations.
The Task Group will also encourage in-depth presentation of methodologies, technologies, alternatives, regional effects and global effects of important pollution control practice that may be applied to the industrial operation.
Hopefully, in the immediate future practitioners, professors, students and researchers in environmental, civil, chemical, sanitary, mechanical and public health engineering and science will find valuable material and important information on industrial waste management, through this Task Group.
The Task Group will operate in close contact with other IWWG Task Groups, particularly the ‘‘Landfill Aeration Task Group, the pHOENIX Task Group” and the Developing Countries Task Group.
The Task Group will be chaired by Prof. Evangelos Gidarakos from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. After serving as executive member of Battelle Institute in Germany for almost 17 years, he is now Director of the Laboratory of Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management in the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete.
The first announcement encouraging participation in this Task Group was made during the Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium Sardinia 2009 that took place in S. Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy, between October 5th–9th 2009. During the Symposium, a workshop on ‘‘Industrial Waste Management” was chaired by Prof. Gidarakos. The Task
Group will be pleased to welcome new members provided that candidates have proven expertise in one or more of the abovementioned fields.
Contact person:
Evangelos Gidarakos
E-mail: gidarako@mred.tuc.gr
Next Task Group Meeting
NEWS
The first official meeting of the Industrial Waste Management Task Group is scheduled to take place in the context of the 2nd International Conference on Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management CRETE 2010 to be held in Chania, Crete, Greece, from October 5th to 8th, 2010. The meeting, scheduled for October 5th, 2010 in the conference facilities of the “Minoa Palace” Hotel in Crete, will focus on the following topics concerning hazardous and industrial waste management:
• Controversial issues in industrial waste management.
• Controversial issues in international relations of the export of hazardous waste.
• Public acceptance of waste management plants and processes.
• Case Studies
Critical aspects related to industrial waste management will be discussed to identify emerging issues and pave the way for an environmentally and socially suitable means of waste management.
This first meeting will be organized following the main objectives of the IWWG Task Group on Industrial Waste Management, which aims to coordinate interdisciplinary research, case studies and experience on the most recent international trends and work in industrial waste regulation and polices. The Task Group, which includes both academic and industrial researchers and scientists, provides an international forum for members to discuss and exchange ideas, generate hypotheses, and jointly consider and relate results and findings from diverse projects. Moreover, the new Task Group will encourage in-depth presentation of methodologies, technologies, alternatives, regional and global effects of important pollution control practice to be applied in industrial operations.
In 2011 the Task Group intends to prepare and distribute discussions papers and organize two meetings. The first meeting will take place in the spring and the second during the 13th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium Sardinia 2011, to be held in October 2011.
For further information on this Task Group please contact the chairman Evangelos Gidarakos (e-mail: gidarako@mred.tuc.gr) or visit the conference website: http://www.hwm1.tuc.gr/