Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy

Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Professor in Mechanical Engineering since 1998 & Chief Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development and Resource Efficiency Management at Jadavpur University, India. He also served as the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology & Head, mechanical engineering. He was the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India and Larsen & Toubro Ltd. He is a renowned personality in the field on Waste Management, Circular Economy, Green Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Development, Co-processing of Hazardous & MSW in cement kiln, Plastics Waste & E-waste management & recycling, management system standards (ISO) and TQM having three patents approved. Prof Ghosh is the founder Chairman of the IconSWM; President, International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW) and the chairman, Consortium of Researchers in International Collaboration (CRIC). He received several awards in India and abroad including the distinguished visiting fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to work on 'Energy Recovery from MSW'. He wrote 9 books, 40 edited volumes, more than 230 national and international articles & book chapters. He is the Associate Editor of Waste Management, Journal, Elsevier and International Journal of Materials Cycle and Waste Management (IJMCWM) and Editor-in-Chief of IconSWM-ISWMAW Secretariat. His significant contribution has been able to place the name of Jadavpur University in the world map of research on waste management. He is consultant & international expert of UNCRD)/DESA, Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Japan, China Productivity Council (CPC), SACEP Sri Lanka, IGES Japan etc. His international research funding includes, European Union Horizon 2020, Erasmus plus, UKIERI, Royal Society-DST, GCRF UK, Royal Academy of Engineering, Georgia Govt. etc. He is the leader of the Collaborative International Research Project on "Global Status of Implementation of Circular Economy (2018-2022)" by ISWMAW involving experts from 44 countries. He was the convener of ISO TC 61 WG2, member in the Indian mirror committee of ISO TC 207 & ISO TC 275. He is expert committee member of government initiatives & was the State Level Advisory Committee Member of Plastics Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2011, expert committee member for the Preparation of standards for RDF for utilisation set up by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), govt of India, Chair Elect of 11th IconSWM 2021 to be held in Dec 2021. He is available at: sadhankghosh9@gmail.com & www.sadhankghosh.com.

Prof. Dr. Sasmita Rani Samanta, an insightful academician loaded with high degree of incisiveness and passion for research and schooling which is intermingling with innovative pragmatically approach is the Pro Vice Chancellor, and former Reader and Professor, KIIT Deemed to be university, Odisha, India. Her theoretical knowhow has been mellowing day by day out of shouldering the assigned task for last one and half decades in different capacity of the academic institution. She implements waste management policy of her own institution and implemented energy recovery process from kitchen wastes and garden wastes. Her leadership roles in KIIT ranges from admission process, human resource management, talent acquisition, general administration, to institute governance and competency management and has taken several steps for execution of innovative academic practices in teaching learning methodology, evaluation and connecting the students and faculty to the academia, engaging and retaining people, bringing transparency in system leading to high motivation, ownership and commitment among the employees, increasing their productivity for triumph of organizational goals. Prof. Samanta is a fellow member of Indian Social Science Congress and Royal Society of Arts, UK. She has a number of publications in national and international journals. She was the Co-chairman of the 10th IconSWM-CE (International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy) in Nov 2019.

Prof. (Dr.) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is a prominent figure in the fields of Waste Management (MSW, Bio-medical waste, wastewater treatment), Inclusive Innovation, Rural Development & Tribology. Under his leadership CSIR-CMERI has grown as a laboratory for waste management & engineering. He is recoganized for Outstanding Vision, Leadership & Contribution in the Field of Engineering Innovation and R&D Management by The Institute of Engineers (India) in 2019. He was Vice-Chairman of JEE Advanced, 2014-16, Editor of Indian Journal of Tribology (IJT) and Vice-Chairman of Delhi Chapter of Tribology Society of India (TSI). He was awarded BOYSCAST fellowship in 2004 by the DST, Govt. of India to pursue research with Prof. Nam P. Suh at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Before joining IIT Delhi he served IIT Bombay. He has a number of IPR to his credit. He is the author of the book entitled 'Fundamentals of Engineering Tribology with Applications'. He has guided several Ph.D. and M. Tech. theses and published nearly 70 research papers in peer reviewed journal. Through his innovative thinking he could transform waste to Wealth and could setup a green colony at CSIR-CMERI colony Durgapur with absolutely zero waste. He started effective integrated (mechanized segregation of waste, biomethanation, sludge to briquette, pyrolysis, plasma gasification, ashes to bricks) waste management systems, where each system is designed to complement the others. Using such system of decentralized waste management, he could prove to eliminate Landfills and minimize societal and ecological distress.

Mr. Carlos Roberto Vieira da Silva Filho, Attorney at Law from Sao Bernardo do Campo School of Law, holds a PG title in Administrative and Economic Regulation Law from Mackenzie University. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages. He is the President and CEO of ABRELPE since 2013 and President of ISWA since 2020. He is a non-state partner at the Climate and Clean Air Coalition-CCAC since 2018 with active participation in the development and implementation processes of some Brazilian Federal Laws applied to waste management, such as Law n. 11.079/2004 (Public-Private Partnership); Law n. 11.445/2007 (National Basic Sanitation Law) and Law n. 12.305/2010 (National Solid Waste Law). Carlos is the coordinator of the Panorama of Solid Waste in Brazil, annual reference document about the waste industry in the country and the Principal Director of international projects developed to assist Brazilian municipalities such as Sao Paulo, Santos, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. He is member of the Steering Committee for the Global Waste Management Outlook and for the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Waste Outlook, developed by UN Environment in 2015 and 2018 and member of the Technical Research Team for the project "Analysis of Technologies directed to Solid Waste and Treatment and Destination in Brazil, Europe, USA and Japan", hosted by BNDES, and concluded in 2014. He is the Principal coordinator of the project to develop a Manual focusing on Best Practices for Solid Waste Planning and Financing, developed by ISWA. Carlos is the Consultant on PPPs and Waste Financing projects throughout Brazilian municipalities having active participation in drawing, developing and reviewing Solid Waste Master Plans, such as the National Solid Waste Plan in 2011-2012 and its review since 2019. He is the coauthor of books related to Waste Management: Gestao de Residuos Solidos: o que diz a lei" ("Solid Waste Management: what the Law says") "Municipal Waste Management Systems"; "Reverse Logistics and E-Waste"; "New Perspectives for Waste Management in Brazil"; "Legal framework for an adequate management of used pesticide packaging" and author of articles, researches and studies focused on the solid waste industry.