Keynote Lecture

by Angela Frederick

Professor Stephen Smith at the 2014,  2nd International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Athens, Greece

Athens 2014 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, 12-14 June

Professor Stephen Smith presented a Keynote lecture to the Athens 2014 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, 12-14 June. The Keynote paper (Athens 2014 ABC Food Waste Collection) focussed on the issues surrounding the source separation of food waste and offered a possible strategy to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of separate food waste collection systems. He also presented a second paper  (Athens 2014 Wet and Dry AD) to the meeting critically comparing the wet and dry anaerobic digestion of food and biodegradable municipal solid waste. He was co-chair, with Florian Amlinger from the European Compost Network, of the conference session on Composting and also sat on the Closing Panel.

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Angela Frederick

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering