Scientific Sessions WRF 2019
Scientific Sessions (SS)
This year, following key topics were addressed in eight scientific sessions:
- Meeting the SDGs
- Life cycle thinking
- Circular Economy: From Ideas to Implementation
- Resource efficiency and materials flows management
- E-waste
- Sustainable Lifestyles and Education
Many abstracts from over 25 countries were submitted this year to the WRF, from which 75 were finally accepted by the Scientific Committee for oral and poster presentation during one of the scientific or poster sessions organized in Geneva. Scientific presentations were clustered in 8 sessions with dedicated themes. These gave place to highly interesting and inspiring speeches and very stimulating lively discussions with the public.
Four oral scientific presentations and one scientific poster which have been particularly appreciated by the conference participants were prized by the Scientific Session Chairs – Prof. Christian Ludwig (Paul Scherrer Institut – PSI and EPFL, Chair Scientific Committee) and Prof. Sonia Valdivia (WRF, Co-Chair Scientific Committee). These were:
Hotel Lobbies as Workspaces for the Modern Worker, presented by Dolapo Oluteye (UCL, United Kingdom)
Incentive based collection of e-waste – Results from pilot implementation in Ghana, presented by Andreas Mahnhart (GIZ, Germany)
Physicomechanical Properties of Starch-Based Bioplastic Films, presented by Tender Ferolin (Ateno de Davao University, Philippines)
Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators, presented by Valeria Superti (EPFL, Switzerland)
Development and characterization of a water-based end-of-life recycling process of lithium ion batteries, presented by Lorena Toledo Reyes (EMPA, Switzerland)
The following presentations took place during the Scientific Sessions at WRF 2019.
The links in the left column show the presentation overviews. The links in the right column show the presentations.
The Scientific Sessions for WRF 2019
SS1: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (23 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 13)
Moderators: Tender Pangilinan Ferolin and Edgar E. Sacayón
- Daudi Mongeri Nyaanga: Life Cycle (LC) for Farm Manure at Egerton University, Kenya
- Edgar E. Sacayón: Considering Blue Carbon Sequestration in Life Cycle Assessment of Palm Oil Systems
- Benjamin Fritz: Life Cycle Inventories of Different Types of Gold Extraction from Small-Scale Mining in the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil
- Marcus Andreas Berr: Assessing Supply Risks within A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework – A Critical Review of Available supply risk indicators
- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup: Assessing with the WORLD6 Model, the Global Energy Use, CO2 Emissions and Water Use of Metals, Materials and Fossil Fuels Extraction and Production
- Gregor Wernet: Life cycle inventory generation and data handling in a large LCI database in a global context
SS2: Meeting the SDGs (23 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 18)
Moderator: Marzia Traverso
- Marzia Traverso: New United Nations Social LCA Guidelines – Supporting the SDGs
- Vandana D Ravishankar: In-House Greywater Sewage Treatment Systems: Proposing a Comprehensive Decision-Making Framework for Micro-Scale Solutions at the Point Source
- Fritz Brugger: Mining Companies and Local Communities: Time for Change
- Marcos Rodrigues Queiroz: Rethink fashion, rethink the world
Presentations
- Marzia Traverso
- Vandana D Ravishankar
- Fritz Brugger
- Marcos Rodrigues Queiroz
SS3: Circular Economy: From Ideas to Implementation (23 October 2019: 12h30 – 14h00, room 13)
Moderators: Rudolf Struis and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
- Sanjeevan Bajaj: Circular Economy simplified: Every ending is a new beginning
- Valeria Superti: Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators
- Beatriz Granziera: Fostering the transition to a Circular Economy in developing countries: a screening over the potentials of the Brazilian National Waste Policy
- Seigo Robinson: Systems Thinking for a Circular Economy
- Lorena del Pilar Munoz: Circular Economy and Positive Carbon – Case Study, Rethread Industry US and Latin America
SS4: Resource Efficiency (23 October 2019: 16h00 – 18h00, room 13)
Moderators: Ron Zevenhoven and Bhavish Patel
- Feng Wang: Hotspot Analysis Tool for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP-HAT)
- Dola Oluteye: Hotel Lobbies as Workspaces for the Modern Worker
- Kerstin Anstätt & Nadja Wisniewski: Simulation Games – A method for Uncovering Resource Efficiency Potentials in Manufacturing Companies
- Bhavish Patel: Phosphorus Recovery from Bio Feedstock using the Improved Hard Process
- Ralph Bodle: International Governance of Resource Efficiency – Prospects for a Treaty?
- Grégoire Meylan: Building capacities for a competitive circular economy – The case of wastewater in Colombia
SS5: Social Aspects of Sustainability (23 October 2019: 16h00 – 18h00, room 18)
Moderator: Sanjeevan Bajaj
- Geoffrey I. Nwaka: From Neglect to Recognition: Promoting the Informal Sector for Sustainable Cities in Africa
- Sally K Springer: Capability of Social Life Cycle Assessment for Representing the Artisanal Small-Scale Mining Sector of Gold in the Amazonian Rainforest of Brazil
- Sanjana Shivakumar: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Aspects and Built Environments of the Indigenous Settlements in Coorg, India
- Andrés Tello: Enhancing the social value of the circular economy in Latin America
- Anna Hulda Olafsdottir: The WORLD6 global integrated assessment model; Linking natural resources, population, energy, pollution, climate change, recycling, trade, health, society, governance and the economy into one structure
SS6: Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (24 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 13)
Moderator: : Lorena Munoz
- Sandor Czellar: Environmental Identity and Sustainable Consumption
- Katrin Bienge: Can there be a global tool for reducing lifestyle footprints? First reflections from setting up the Sustainable Lifestyles Accelerator
- Sibel Eker: Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets
- Dean Tashobya: Training of Trainers in LCA – a practical experience in Uganda
- Lynnette Widder & Thomas Pacioni: University-level Education in Support of Sustainable Mining: A Case Study from Columbia University and UNDP Guinea
SS7: E-waste to Resource (24 October 2019: 08h30 – 10h00, room 18)
Moderators: Markus Spitzbart and Ajay Bhagwan Patil
- Ajay Bhagwan Patil: Rare Earth Elements Recycling from End of Life Electronics Waste: The Green Approach with Cloud Point Extraction
- Antoinette van der Merwe : Mobile Phone Recycling in Switzerland: A Potential Gold Mine?
- Karoline Owusu-Sekyere: Analysis of the e-waste management conditions in Agbogbloshie through a process based MFA
- Andreas Manhart: Incentive Based Collection of E-Waste – Results from Pilot Implementations in Ghana
- Ron Zevenhoven: Energy Requirements for Recovery of (Metallic) Nanoparticulate Material from Waste
SS8: Material Flows and Management (24 October 2019: 12h30 – 14h00, room 13)
Moderator: Atsushi Inaba
- Barbara Beck: Characterization of Gold Ores – The Basis of Gold Traceability
- Shourjomay Chattopadhyay: Material Flows in the Indian Pulp-and-Paper and Steel Manufacturing Sectors in India
- Dennis Kolcava: International Norms and Extra-Territorial Regulation: Are Citizens Willing to Tie the Hands of Home Corporations Abroad?
- Fabian Ottiger: Impacts on Climate Change and Contribution to Circular Economy of Informal E-Waste Recycling in Developing Countries
- Tender Pangilinan Ferolin: Physicomechanical Properties of Starch-Based Bioplastic Films