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
Together with six international colleagues Prof. Cossu and myself founded in 2002 the International Waste Working Group. We wanted to establish a new Solid Waste Association with a more scientific orientation, to give waste scientists and students but also practicioners a voice, a home. Our idea was from the beginning to establish a lean organisation that has a more personal character and that represents a broad picture of WM including social and cultural aspects; e.g. IWWG Art Gallery. I invite scientists and practitioners to join IWWG and further enrich the organisation with their expertise and input.
Experience
1968 - 1976
Technical University of Braunschweig (DE)
Dipl.-Ing / Dr.-Ing
1976 - 1977
University of Madison Wisconsin, USA
Post Doc
1982 - 2008
Hamburg University of Technology (DE)
Professor at the Institute of Environmental Technology and 1991 Director of Institute for WasteResourcesMangement
Over 12 years German Research Foundation: Treatment of contaminated sites, German Ministry of Science and Technology: Landfill aeration, landfill processes simulation, odour reduction, Mechanical biological pre-treatment. EU cooperation projects with Malaysia, Russia, Italy and the Central Asia states
Publications
> 300 scientific papers and 8 books
Awards / Other
• Honorary Doctor from the Technical University of Crete, Greece in 2019
• Award “A Life for Waste” at the Sardinia Symposium in 2009
• Visiting Professor at the Institute of technologies and Applied Science in Havanna, Cuba in 2006
