IWWG - International Waste Working Group is a non-profit association that aims to provide a forum to encourage economic and ecological waste management world-wide and to promote scientific advancement in the field
This scientific company was a pioneer in the 1980s and 1990s in landfill management, and has gradually and positively shifted towards waste as a resource and towards the circular economy. The academic sector is the most present. The practical issues of characterization, classification and waste management are nevertheless of the utmost importance to the industry and I have tried to highlight them. I also created a working group on manufactured nanoparticles in waste and waste management.
Experience
2023 - present
(FR)
Consultant
Studies on the management of hazardous waste by risk, on the end-of-waste status at the exit of EU-certified recycling facilities.
Training on waste hazard classification.
Expertise and technical assistance for the transformation of large bauxite residue deposits into soil.
Scientific advocacy for practical waste management issues.
2009 - 2023
French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risk (FR)
Research engineer
Technical assistance on hazardous waste for French Ministry of Environment
1996 - 2023
Service Laboratories and Veolia (FR)
Head of laboratories
Main research interest
Waste sampling and characterisation, risk assessment of waste as a resource, mitigation or deletion of hazardous properties
Most relevant projects
• Waste characterisation (convenor of 2 Working Groups of CEN, the European Standardisation Committee, Leaching and Sampling)
• Waste hazard classification (by chemical composition and by ecotoxicological tests)
• Hazardous waste management: brominated flame retardants and antimony in plastics, additives that make plastic hazardous, deletion of hazardous properties
• Representative sampling of waste
• Classification of hazardous waste
• End-of-waste status
• Management of hazardous waste by risk
Publications
50+ scientific papers and 75 communications
Awards / Other
• Nominated Expert to the Consultative Committee on the status of waste/the end of waste, Ministry of the Environment, France
• EU nominated expert to the “Minamata Convention on Mercury” and delegate to COP4
