IRRC Waste-to-Energy, a long-standing international event that offers perspective on recycling and recovery, has decided to go online this year.
Organiser Elisabeth Thomé-Kozmiensky explained the decision: “We always enjoy our yearly meetings in Vienna. That is why we did not make it easy for ourselves, when we determined what to do with this year’s IRRC Waste-to-Energy. However, there was only one responsible choice in order to protect the health and well-being of our experts and delegates.”
The IRRC is now in its 10th year and the organisers wanted to do something special for this anniversary. But like so many other plans and events the virus has put a spoke in this wheel.
In recent months, the IRRC-team has been preparing intensively for the new situation. In May they transformed their first conference (50 speakers, 300 participants) into an online-event – within six weeks. In that time they also published an event-App (called Vivis), which helps participants to organise their visit and gives them access to all conference material.
Based on these experiences the organiser is confidently looking into the near future and inviting professionals from politics, industry and science to join them in October and enrich the lively exchange with their questions, knowledge and experience.
The central topics covered by the IRRC are:
- International development: Policies & legislation, country reports, strategies
- Waste incineration: Municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, hazardous waste, technologies of waste incineration, tools & methods for plants in operation, IT & digitalisation, energy efficiency & use, boiler cleaning, experience with materials & corrosion, flue gas treatment, CO2 capture & utilization, processing & utilization of incineration bottom ash
- Alternative waste-to-energy processes: MBT, utilization of SRF, pyrolysis & gasification
The IRRC Waste to Energy event takes place on 15-16 October 2020. The programme can be downloaded here. For further information go to www.irrc.at.
