20th anniversary of the conference is celebrated in Liberec
The 20th Circular Economy and Landfill Workshop Liberec-Zittau 2024, which took place on October 29 and 30 in Liberec, in the auditorium of the TU Liberec, covered a wide range of the circular economy and ranged from biowaste, textile and plastic recycling to water pollution control and soil remediation.
The workshop was jointly organized by the NTI of the Technical University of Liberec and the ZIRKON of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.
This lecture and specialist discussion event is the result of many years of in-depth cooperation between the two universities across national borders and was held in German and Czech with simultaneous translation.
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We welcomed participants from our partner institutions in Stuttgart, Braunschweig, Karlsruhe, Freiberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Potsdam, Liberec and Prague. The workshop was held for the 19th time this year. This demonstrates continuity and perseverance in this field of research across national borders! For almost two decades now, ZIRKON and the NTI have been contributing their expertise and perspectives to the scientific discussion in both countries. A wonderful testimony to our cross-border cooperation and a strong symbol of coexistence in the three-country region.
After an inspiring presentation by Prof. Dr. Marc Kreuzbruck from IKT Stuttgart on the challenges of the recycling cycle, other German and Czech experts spoke on the topics of waste prevention, waste separation and waste management.
The Circular Economy and Landfill Workshop is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach . It brings together perspectives from authorities and research. Plant operators and waste producers come together to discuss and exchange views on problems that require joint processing and solutions. Particular attention is paid to the legal aspects. Whether country-specific landfill and contaminated site regulations or EU law with its scope of validity for both countries - the aim is to compare and contrast the engineering view with the legal view. In addition, there are political decisions such as the Green Deal that need to be implemented. In addition, the renaming of the workshop as the Circular Economy and Landfill Workshop also opens it up to recycling and plant engineering.
The idea of the "landfill workshop" was born somewhat as a defiant reaction to the view that we could manage without waste disposal sites in the future. There were many unanswered questions in this area and even more to tackle. The first years of the conference were characterized by the topics surrounding landfill construction, the operation of landfills and the aftercare of landfills. The conference offered the opportunity for administrative staff, political decision-makers and contractors to engage in an intensive exchange and discuss limit values, measurement methods or ??? to discuss.
Defiance became tradition.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the workshop on and behind the stage. Special thanks go to the interpreters, who did a great job!
Photos: HSZG ZIRKON (Thomas Krause)
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