The benchmark professional congress in the management of waste and resources will take place in Mataró on 14th and 15th November
The conferences and round tables, led by more than 60 top-level experts, will focus on sharing knowledge and innovative strategies on how the circular economy allows us to anticipate a more sustainable future
The countdown to Recuwaste 2023 has already begun and Mataró (Barcelona) is again preparing to be the capital of sustainable waste management. This Tuesday the president of Maresme Circular and mayor of Mataró, David Bote, the director of the Catalan Waste Agency, Isaac Peraire, and the director of Maresme Circular, Carles Salesa, held a press conference to present the benchmark professional congress in the management of resources and waste, Recuwaste, which will take place on November 14th and 15th at the TecnoCampus of Mataró.
Recuwaste is firmly consolidated and in its seventh edition has its eye on the evolution of resources, changes in production and consumption and how the circular economy allows us to anticipate a more sustainable future, both for the environment and for the economy and society in general.
Under the slogan ‘The circular economy of resources: anticipating the future’, the congress, promoted by Maresme Circular, the brand of the Maresme Waste Consortium, in collaboration with the Catalan Waste Agency and the Barcelona Provincial Council, also has the support of other entities such as the Environmental Forum Foundation, which provides the scientific secretariat.
“Mataró is a pioneering and innovative city and an example of this is the Recuwaste congress that annually brings together in the capital of Maresme professionals from the waste management and circular economy sector with the aim of seeking answers to a key current issue,” said the mayor of Mataró and president of Maresme Circular, David Bote.
For his part, the director of the Waste Agency of Catalonia, Isaac Peraire, stressed that “anticipating the future in terms of the circular economy means not only adopting this approach, but also advocating policies and regulations that promote it. Companies and governments must work together to create incentives that reward the adoption of sustainable practices and discourage the unchecked exploitation of natural resources”.
Finally, the director of Maresme Circular, Carles Salesa, explained that this year’s congress “brings together case studies of the most innovative advances that are currently transforming waste management around the world” and assured that “this paradigm shift of understanding that waste is a resource is very well reflected in this edition of Recuwaste”. Salesa introduced the program of the congress, which brings together more than 60 top-level experts, both local and international.
From theory to practice
Speakers such as the political economist, promoter of the group of Governments for a Welfare Economy (WEGo), Katherine Trebeck, as well as the director of the industrial ecology research group of the University of Zaragoza, Alicia Valero, head of the Packaging and Circular Economy Unit of Itene, Cesar Aliaga, the head of Environment of Solidança, Nati Yesares, or the head of waste collection of the community of municipalities in Pamplona, Ángel Álvarez, will be sharing knowledge and innovative strategies on the materials crisis, waste as resources, economic instruments in the management of municipal waste, industry 4.0 in waste management, as well as future technologies for decarbonisation or experiences in the prevention and reuse of critical fractions such as textiles, disposable packaging and plastics.
The conferences and round tables will be complemented by an exhibition of public service machinery (technologies for selective collection, robotics, containers, routes, etc.) and a guided tour of the Maresme Integrated Centre for Waste Recovery, which for the first time in the framework of the congress includes an immersive experience with virtual reality glasses in which the user can travel from the present to the future of the world of recycling.
The director of the Catalan Waste Agency, Isaac Peraire, the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, and the director of Maresme Circular, Carles Salesa, during the press conference for the presentation of the seventh edition of Recuwaste / Marga Cruz
