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Transforming Waste into Wealth: Global Challenge, Local Solutions
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Description
Cities play a key role in meeting the ambitious climate, sustainability and urban development objectives defined in the Paris Agreement, Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in recent years. Urban areas are not only responsible for 80% of energy consumption and 75% of GHG emissions, but also for 2.1 billion tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated worldwide each year. The amount of waste produced by individuals is growing daily and costs for waste management often account for a big share of the local governments’ budget. Moreover, insufficient treatment in uncontrolled dumpsites and open waste burning results in serious health problems, as well as water and air pollution.
These facts reflect consumption patterns and lifestyles in cities that are not aligned with sustainable urban development. In order to improve the current state of waste management, reduce the costs related to its collection and treatment and mitigate its impact on the environment, it is utterly important to raise awareness, put waste management polices into place and implement them. Many cities, small businesses and NGOs have already started this journey and have come up with innovative ideas and initiatives that aim at addressing the challenges and capturing the opportunities of sustainable waste management.
In this context, the Urban Pathways Project, funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) from the German Ministry of Environment and implemented by the Wuppertal Institute and UN Habitat, has put together the Webinar “Transforming Waste into Wealth: Global Challenge, Local Solutions”. It aims at discussing and sharing best practice examples and knowledge on policy measures and local waste management initiatives among representatives from Latin American, African and Asian municipalities, research institutions, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The webinar will start with an overview of the current situation and the biggest challenges of waste from a global perspective and will continue with the explanation of measures that can be implemented to reduce their impact at the local level. This will be combined with the presentation of innovative local initiatives being carried out in different cities.
The Webinar is one of the activities that will be carried out under the initiative “EnvironMENTALISE”, launched by Urban Pathways to promote the implementation of actions that contribute to raise awareness about the environmental, health, social and economic benefits of non-motorised transport, as well as of waste reduction. In order to have a greater impact, as well as to generate synergies and learning on a larger scale, this initiative will be carried out in collaboration with regional and global awareness campaigns such as the Mobility Week, which includes the International Car Free Day, the World Habitat Day, the Waste Wise Cities Campaign, the SDGs summit and the Walk and Cycle to School Day. All of them are happening between September and October.
Presentations
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EnvironMENTALISE – raising awareness for safer, nicer and greener neighbourhoods
María Rosa Muñoz Research Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy |
EnvironMENTALISE – aumentando conscientização para bairros mais seguros, agradáveis e verdes
Stefanie Dorneanu Pesquisadora – Instituto Wuppertal para Clima, Ambiente e Energia, Berlim, Alemanha |
Presentación de la iniciativa „Ambientalízate – co-creando barrios más seguros, amigables y verdes”
Lisa Graaf Investigadora del Instituto Wuppertal para el Clima, el Ambiente y la Energía, Berlín, Alemania
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Introduction to Waste Wise Cities Campaign and World Habitat Day 2019
Topic: “Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth”
Nele Kapp Solid Waste Management Unit, Urban Basic Services Branch, UN–Habitat |
Introdução à Campanha “Waste Wise Cities” e “Dia Mundial do Habitat” 2019
Tema: “Tecnologias de ponta como uma ferramenta de inovação para transformar resíduos em valor”
Nele Kapp Unidade de Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Área de Serviços Básicos Urbanos, UN-Habitat |
Introducción a la Campaña Waste Wise Cities y al Día Mundial del Hábitat
Tema: “Frontier Technologies como herramienta innovadora para transformar los residuos en riqueza”T
Nele Kapp Unidad de Gestión de Residuos, División Servicios Urbanos Básicos, ONU-Hábitat
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Part A: The challenge: Current situation of waste from a global perspective Part B: Prevention measures and best practices to reduce & recycle the amount of waste
Stefanie Dorneanu Research Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy |
Parte A: O Desafio: Situação atual dos resíduos em uma perspectiva global Parte B: Medidas de prevenção e melhores práticas para reduzir e reciclar o volume de resíduos
Adriana Marchiori Silva Pesquisadora – Instituto Wuppertal para Clima, Ambiente e Energia, Wuppertal, Alemanha |
Parte A: El desafío global – Situación actual de los residuos desde una perspectiva global
María Rosa Muñoz Investigadora del Instituto Wuppertal para el Clima, el Ambiente y la Energía, Berlín, Alemania
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Exemplary local initiatives for awareness raising, waste prevention & recycling |
Iniciativas locais exemplares para aumento de conscientização, prevenção da geração de resíduos e reciclagem |
Iniciativas locales ejemplares para la sensibilización, prevención y reciclaje de residuos |
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English
Doko Recyclers is a social enterprise that aims at creating value from waste. They support segregation of waste at its source and contribute to social innovations that being applied, like seamless waste pickup, composting solutions, awareness workshops, e-waste management, upcycling and many more.
Description of best practice of solid waste management in the city of Kochi, including door to door collection, separation at source, bio methanation, awarness raising, (planned) waste to energy plant.
Kudumbashree (meaning: prosperity of the familiy) is the women empowerment, poverty eradication and economic empowerment programme of the Kerala State government of India. It helps to set up waste management as a micro enterprise activity, having trained already more than 27,000 women for 888 Local Self Government Institutions.
The private initative aims at creating awareness, educate and help communities establish decentralized sustainable solid waste management system, raising the percentage of waste recovery, separation, collection and disposal from less than from less than 10% in 2014 to 85 % in 2018.
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Presentation of Belo Horizontes process of
Implementation of a composting system in 25 municipal schools, each school appointing “Guardiões da Composteira”, a group responsible for the treatment and maintenance of the compost bin.
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Spanish – ReciVeci (Quito, Ecuador)[4], Paula Guerra, Co-fundadora de ReciVeci RECIVECI is a citizen’s volunteers initiative that promotes inclusive recycling in Ecuador, aiming at building a recycling culture by creating a human bond between the waste picker and the citizen.
– El Mercado del Trueque (Ciudad de México)[5], María del Rosario Campos Berumen, Subdirectora de Educación para la Sustentabilidad, Dirección Ejecutiva de Cultura Ambiental, Secretaría del Medio Ambiente & Al yibb The Ministry of Environment of the Government of Mexico City within its environmental education program organizes a monthly Recycling-Market (Mercado del Trueque), where citizens can exchange recycable materials to local agricultural products. Every month nearly 4.000 citizens join the market. |
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[1] https://dokorecyclers.com
[2] https://prefeitura.pbh.gov.br/slu/informacoes/coleta-seletiva
[3] http://residuozero.org.br/boas-praticas/escola-residuo-zero-ilhabela/
[5] http://data.sedema.cdmx.gob.mx/mercadodetrueque/
