the future of Waste

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Registration: 18:30-19:00, Conference: 19:00-21:15

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Location: WTC - World Trade Center, Metropolitan Boardroom of Amsterdam In Business, D tower 12th floor, Strawinskylaan 1, 1077 XW Amsterdam

The conference language is English.


Presentations

Diana den Held, strategic advisor for Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle)
'Dossier Cradle to Cradle (C2C) - NL'

Peter van Zwol, Owner, Solarix - Biodiesel Professionals
Second Generation Biofuels download as pdf

Bram Kranenburg, Technical Manager, Icopal Benelux
Bitumen End of Life Solutions (BiELSo), recycling of old bituminous roofs and making new roofing materials out of it. download as pdf

John Kuipers, Founder, Sweep - Second Life for Oil
Plastic to Oil download as pdf

Impressions

What is 'waste'? Waste is the result of production and consumption of material goods. Only a short while ago, waste was simply thrown away or burned. In most economic theories, the absorption capacity of 'the environment' is deemed to be infinite. With 6.5 billion people on the planet earth, we are confronted by the fact that this assumption is blatantly incorrect. As a result, we have no other choice than to rethink 'waste' and treat it as a new type of resource. However, can everything be re-used? Is it possible to just treat waste as a resource? What do we need to do, to do so effectively? If it were simple, wouldn't we have done so long before? During this event, some examples of effective and promising approaches to waste-management are presented.

Concept by John Grüter, Owner, Digital Knowledge


Diana den Held, strategic advisor for Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle)
Cradle to Cradle, what to do with it?

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) is a model, developed by Michael Braungart and William McDonough. At a high pace it’s being implemented on a world wide scale. In this model a company is being organised in such a way that the outcome is beneficial for as well the Company, the Environment as Society. The Netherlands take an important place in the implementation of C2C: our country functions as a blue print for the rest of the World. In this lecture, strategist Diana den Held tells about Cradle to Cradle and she will point out a few differences between ‘traditional’ sustainability thinking and the Cradle to Cradle approach. She hopes to inspire you to take (further) steps on the Cradle to Cradle road.

Peter van Zwol, Owner, Solarix - Biodiesel Professionals
Second Generation Biofuels

Peter van Zwol talks about the second generation of Biodiesel, about different and innovative large-scale waste processes (cooking oils, animal fatty substances and biomass/organic waste). The resulting second generation Biodiesel is produced without reallocating food stocks for energy production. What are sustainable technologies for the production of biodiesel, bio-ethanol and bio gas from organic waste?

Bram Kranenburg, Technical Manager, Icopal Benelux
Bitumen End of Life Solutions (BiELSo), recycling of old bituminous roofs and making new roofing materials out of it.

BiELSo is the abbreviation of Bitumen End of Life Solutions. Traditionally, bitumen is made of a non-renewable resource, oil. BiELSo is a process that allows virtually endless recycling and re-use of the bitumen ('raw') materials by harvesting 'old' roofing materials. Additionally, substantial reduction of CO2 is gained. The advantage is that less waste is produced and 'new' oil can be used for other purposes.

John Kuipers, Founder, Sweep - Second Life for Oil
Plastic to Oil

In today’s hectic world we pass through life hastily, and as we do, we use an enormous amount of energy. In that process we create enormous piles of garbage, varying from small candy wrappers to complete dumps with 1000's of tonnes of waste plastic.
John talks about new technologies that convert waste plastic into semi refined oil.

Exhibition
Waste from Production - Production from Waste by Stefan Lehner, En-Fer Atelier

18:30 - 19:00
Registration & welcome drinks

19:00 - 20:00
Introduction by our Moderator
John Grüter, Owner, Digital Knowledge


Part I:

Diana den Held, strategic advisor for Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle)
Cradle to Cradle, what to do with it?

Peter van Zwol, Owner, Solarix - Biodiesel Professionals
Second Generation Biofuels

Bram Kranenburg, Technical Manager, Icopal Benelux
Bitumen End of Life Solutions (BiELSo), recycling of old bituminous roofs and making new roofing materials out of it.

John Kuipers, Founder, Sweep - Second Life for Oil
Plastic to Oil

20:00 - 20:30
Coffee break with drinks and snacks.

20:30 - 21:15
Part II: Open discussion

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Exhibition

Waste from Production - Production from Waste
by Stefan Lehner, En-Fer Atelier

The growing waste mountains threaten our environment but all waste has also an enormous potential. Waste must at least be recycled. To lose less energy and materials we can even up cycle it. Design with waste can be done at different level. More we use obvious and hidden waste potential, less we need new raw materials and energy. Stefan Lehner is doing since 22 years studies, prototypes, limited editions and serial production of interior objects based on waste and its potential.
www.en-fer.com

Amsterdam inbusiness
Amsterdam inbusiness is the official foreign investment agency in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. We work on behalf of the City of Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Haarlemmermeer and Almere.

In short:

• A single contact point to help international companies get started, and keep growing, in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
• A wide range of useful contacts in both private and public sectors
• A support network of civic partners in the region and around the world
• Full programmes for fact-finding visits to evaluate and select locations, services and professional advisors
• Advice for company staff and their families
• All services free, confidential and without obligation

www.amsterdaminbusiness.com

Sustainable Energy Europe
The future landscape of European energy supply and demand will have to make much greater use of new renewable energy sources and focus more upon energy-efficient methods. Today, we can be proud of the fact that Europe is already a leading advocate in the fight to halt the depletion of natural resources and prevent climate change. Our task is now to persuade both consumers and key decision-makers of the benefits of sustainable energy production and use.

The Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign is a European Commission initiative in the framework of the Intelligent Energy - Europe programme, which aims to raise public awareness and promote sustainable energy production and use among individuals and organisations, private companies and public authorities, professional and energy agencies, industry associations and NGOs across Europe.
http://www.sustenergy.org

Qualit Datamatics
QD is a private owned organisation dedicated to technology transfer, in various countries where inbalances in development between urban and rural areas exist. Such imbalances hamper the national development due to the wastage of human and natural resources.

By the acceptance and use of innovative technologies, this situation may be redressed. This assumption is based on the observation that human behavior changes, when new technologies are accepted and absorbed. In other words: once accepted, innovative technologies can cause social innovation.

It is QD's goal to select technologies which are innovative, attractive, maintenance free, modularized (with local construction components), solving immediate problems, and that can be operated in a decentralized way (= effective management).

The technology sectors QD has choosen are water, biogas, wind energy systems, dairy, light, automotive and innovative decision support systems on urban planning for rural and urban areas.
www.jagbandhan.com

Diana den Held
strategic advisor for Michael Braungart (Cradle to Cradle)

Diana den Held is strategic advisor (specialised in influencing behaviour and attitude change) and she works directly with Michael Braungart. She has been positioning (brand) identities, influencing opinions and even evoke specific targeted behaviour for the past 15 years now and has received several (inter)national awards for that.
www.gevleugeldewoorden.nl

Peter van Zwol
Owner, Solarix - Biodiesel Professionals

Solarix has specialised in equipment for the production of biodiesel from sidestreams like used cooking oil. Besides this we have developed the Eco Energy concept for producing energy from waste. The concept enables the production of biodiesel and biogas from waste.

Furthermore we are developing new concepts for sustainable energy amongst other we are working on algae and solar energy.
www.solarix.eu

Bram Kranenburg
Technical Manager, Icopal Benelux

An important part of Icopal’s vision is to become the preferred partner with respect of environment, health and safety. Icopal’s core products roofing, waterproofing, building membranes and civil engineering membranes are all playing significant and important roles in protecting the environment.

All Icopal companies are based on the Group's commitment to environmental responsibility. In other words, the companies in the Group undertake to integrate environmental consideration into all activities that could have direct or indirect environmental impact.In general the ISO 14001 standard or similar standards for environmental management are adopted by Icopal companies We seek to establish leadership in the roofing industry in key environmental areas such as energy consumption, rainwater management and air quality control.
www.icopal.com

John Kuipers
Founder, Sweep - Second Life for Oil

G. John Kuipers, born 5-5-1955 in Nunspeet (Netherlands).
Educated in United States, MBA at University of California at Davis.
Was Sales Supervisor for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for about 5 years, till 1984.
From there my own company specialising in banking and real estate and taking companies public on Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchance.
Company was sold in 2006.
Returned to the Netherlands to persue interest in and development of alternative energy / waste to energy and bio refining.
www.roi-biointernational.com

John Grüter
Owner, Digital Knowledge

Business Architect, Knowledge Management Specialist, Business Developer, Systems Thinker, IT Generalist & Change Agent

Digital technology is rapidly transforming our society, our business practices and lives. Technology is a driver, but not the real issue. Adoption by individuals, companies and governments is far more important. But how can we manage the technology, the adoption process and the effect on our businesses and private lives, without getting lost in that change?

Specialties
Business Architecture; Knowledge Management; Process and Services Innovation; New Business Development; Product Management
www.digital-knowledge.com

WTC - World Trade Center
Metropolitan Boardroom of Amsterdam In Business
D tower 12th floor
Strawinskylaan 1
1077 XW Amsterdam



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Train and bus station, Station Zuid/WTC only 200 metres from WTC building

By tram: Line 5
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