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08:30 - 09:30 | Opening Ceremony
‣ Opening Address by president Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association (HSWMA), Greece
‣ Speech by president, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Brazil
‣ Opening speeches by invited politicians…#to be defined

09:30 - 10:00 | Keynote speaker 1, UN Philip

10:30 - 11:20

Bjorn Appelqvist
ISWA
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10:30 - 10:55 | Keynote speaker 3, Prof. Costas Vellis
10:55 - 11:20 | Keynote speaker 4, Antonis Mavropoulos former ISWA President

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Session 1
Definitions & Practices - 8 presentations
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UNEP IETC – GWMO2 New Global Waste Management Outlook report

Session 2
Closed Loops and Recycling Markets - 7 presentations
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Session 3
The Relationship Between Circular and Low Carbon Economies - 4 presentations
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Session 4
Substances and Concern (chemicals, pathogens) - 3 presentations
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Session 5
Global Network of Centers of excellence for climate change and circular economy - 3 presentations
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Session 6
Global Value Chains and Circular Economy - 4 presentations
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Session 7
The Role of digitalization in a Circular Economy - 7 presentations
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Session 8
Going Green: Women's role in a post-COVID green economic recovery! - 7 presentations
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Session 9
WGRWM What drives recycling on a circular and warming Planet A? - 6 presentations
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Session 10
Metrics & Indicators - 8 presentations
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Session 11
Single use plastics and their fate - EU Joined Session, ISWA EU Project Plastics Circularity Innovation Showcase - 8 presentations
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Session 12
Material replacement possibilities and impacts - 5 presentations
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Session 13
Mechanical VS Chemical Plastic Recycling: Pros and Cons - EU - Multicycle Advanced & Sustainable Recycling Processes and Value Chains for Plastic - Based Multi-Materials - 4 presentations
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Session 14
Plastic Waste & Globalization - 3 presentations
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YPG/WGL, Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management in Developing Countries - Young Professionals' Perspective
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19:00 - 21:00

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Session 15
Waste Minimization and Prevention, WG (A) - 7 presentations
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Session 16
Redefining Recycling Towards Circular Models, WG (A) - 7 presentations
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Session 17
The Role of Energy Recovery in a Circular Economy, WG - 8 presentations
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Sesssion 18
The Role of Biowaste Management in Circular Models, WG - 7 presentations
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Session 15
Waste Minimization and Prevention, WG (A) - 6 presentations
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Session 19
Hazardous Substances Management in a Circular Economy, WG - 5 presentations
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Session 21
WGER, Project Launch: ISWA Whitebook on Energy-from-Waste (EfW) - 4 presentations
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Session 20
Circular Economy and Fuels Derived from Waste - 9 presentations
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Session 18
The Role of Biowaste Management in Circular Models, WG - 6 presentations
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Session on Food Waste Separation in High Density Cities
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Session 22 (A)
The central role of depollution and pathogens destruction (example: COVID 19) - 6 presentations
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WG on Biological Treatment of Waste

Session 22 (B)
The central role of depollution and pathogens destruction (example: COVID 19) - WGHCW, How the profile of healthcare waste has changes as the result of a global pandemic, what happens next? - 5 presentations
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WG MSW and Biowaste management for small Islands

Sesssion 23 (A)
The Role of Landfills in a Circular Economy (transitioning from dumpsites to sanitary landfills, landfilling mining, sustainable landfill management), WG - 6 presentations
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Session 24
CDTF, The Last Call: From Dumpsite closure to strategic final sinks in the circular economy - 5 presentations
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Session 25
Royal Academy of Engineering - GRoSEEL | UNEP CCAC - Closing Dumpsites
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UNEP CCAC - Closing Dumpsites - Case of Tyre, Lebanon

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Session 26
Separate Collection - WGCTT, Optimizing Collection & Transportation with appropriate separate waste collection, vehicle selection and ICT - 7 presentations
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Session 27
Textiles, WGGLI & WGRWM, Textile waste in the field of tension between legislation economi interests technology development and the Environment - 8 presentations
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Session 23 (B)
The Role of Landfills in a Circular Economy (transitioning from dumpsites to sanitary landfills, landfilling mining, sustainable landfill management), WG - 6 presentations
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Session 28
WGCCWM, Debating the Pros and Cons: Is the waste sector ready to go beyond weight-basted targets? - 6 presentations
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Session 29
WM&R, Waste Management and Research Special Issue: The latest Research in SWM - 6 presentations
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Session 30
EU-DECOAT, Recycling multi-layered products: Removal of coatings from textile substrates - 6 presentations
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Session 31
E-U Waste & Demolition Waste (A) - 6 presentations
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Session 31
E-U Waste & Demolition Waste (B) - 6 presentations
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19:00 - 22:00

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Pete Hugh
Design Director - Incubator
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Circular Economy in the Balkan Region, Mediterranean, and the EU sphere of influence (A+B)
Session 32 (A)
Greece National waste Management Plan | Greece National Waste Circular Economy Plan - 8 presentations
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Session 32 (B)
Status and possibility of implementation of circular economy in South East European & Balkan Countries - 4 presentations
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Circular Economy and The Tourism Industry
Session 33
WGBTW, The role and the economic value of Restoring Carbon content in Mediterranean soils in the framework of the Circular economy applied to biowaste recycling
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Marine Litter in the Mediterranean Context
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Session 35
Circular Economy Policies & Regulations & Financing CE & Waste Management, WG (A) - 7 presentations
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Session 36
Extended Producer Responsibility, Deposit, Return Systems and Alternatives - WGGLI, Can the concept of extended producer responsibility be applied in low and middle income countries? (A) - 9 presentations
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Session 37
Stakeholder inclusion & Communications, Communication & Social Issues, WG - WGCSI, How to raise public acceptance for waste management projects and initiatives (A) - 7 presentations
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Session 38
New processes, new materials, new rules: Enhancing Standards, international Rules and Framework Conditions & Industrial Symbiosis - 9 presentations
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13:30 - 14:30

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Session 35
Circular Economy Policies & Regulations & Financing CE & Waste Management, WG (B) - 7 presentations
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Curated Session
End of Waste
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Session 36
Extended Producer Responsibility, Deposit, Return Systems and Alternatives - WGGLI, Can the concept of extended producer responsibility be applied in low and middle income countries?(A) - 4 presentations
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Session 40
Finance - CALC, The Circularity Salon: Exploring and Measuring the impacts of Waste prevention processes and circularity in cities
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Session 37
Stakeholder inclusion & Communications, Communication & Social Issues, WG - WGCSI, How to raise public acceptance for waste management projects and initiatives (B) - 7 presentations
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Session on CE in Flanders
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Session 39
CE in municipalities - 11 presentations
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Session 40
ISWA Municipalities - UN Habitat Waste Wise Cities - WEF - YEH - WWF - C40 Cities session
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18.00 - 19.00

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19:00 - 19:30

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09:00 - 17:00

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