Recycling

Cliff Hacking is President and CEO of the Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA). An internationally experienced leader, Cliff has achieved significant results through creating and managing high performance teams. Since launching operations in 2012, Cliff has: led the successful launch of new EPRA branded programs in the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec, welcomed existing programs from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island into the EPRA family and has overseen the expansion of Phase V products in our British Columbia program; making it the most comprehensive program in North America. Under Cliff’s leadership, EPRA has provided a steward interface and steward services for more than 3,000 program Stewards across Canada; collecting and responsibly recycling more than 25,000 tonnes of regulated, end-of-life electronics in 2012 alone.

Recycling

Ahn Ji Whan received a B.S, M.S and Ph.D degree in Mining and Minerals Engineering during the years 1986 ~ 1997 from Inha University and she has another master’s degree in Resources Environmental Economics from Yonsei University. Now Dr. Ahn is working as a Principal Researcher in Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, Director for Resources, Environment and Materials R&D Center, KIGAM, President for Korea Institute of Limestone & Advanced Materials (KILAM), Chairperson, Japan/Korea International Symposium on Resources Recycling and Materials Science, Vice President of Korean Society for Geosystem Engineering and Vice President of Korea Institute of Resources and Recycling.Dr. Ji Whan Ahn has published more than 154 papers, 716 proceedings papers/Conference presentations and 71 patents. She received many awards, National Science Merit (Presidential Citation Award), The Excellent Research award from Ministry of Knowledge Economy and The First Women Ceramist award etc., for her research excellence.

Accelerated carbonation processing, CO2 solidification, Carbon capture and storage (CCS), Carbon capture and sequestration, Powder technology, Ceramics, Nano materials, Waste management system, Environmental remediation technologies, Green Chemistry, Mineral resources, recovery and recycling, Mineral carbonation, Electrometallurgy.

Dr. A. Angelakis is a Water Resources Engineer at the National Agric. Research Foundation, Institute of Crete, Greece and Technical Consultant of Hellenic Union of Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewerage. He has graduated from Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Greece (BS in Agronomy), UC Riverside, USA (MS in Soil Sci.), and UC Davis, USA (BS in Civil Eng., MS in Water Sci., and Ph. D. in Soil Physics). He is author/co-author of over 450 publications mostly in the scientific fields of Environmental engineering; Aquatic wastewater management systems; Small systems of water and wastewater management; Treated wastewater and reclamation and reuse; and Water and wastewater technologies in ancient civilizations. He has over 4000 SCH citations and an i10-index of 75. He has participated, mostly as invited speaker in the organizing/scientific committee of more than 120 international Symposia and/or Conferences in the last 25 years. He is Editor of Water Sciences and Technology (WST), WST: Water Supply, Public Health Frontier (PHF), Austin J. of Irrigation, and member of the Editorial Boards of Journals Water, Sustainability, International Journal of Hydrology, and International Journal of Hydrology. He is IWA (International Water Association) Distinguished Fellow and Honorary member of IWA and of Hellenic Water Association (HWA). Also he is Member of the IWA Strategic Council. He is President of IWA SG on Water and Wastewater in Ancient Civilizations and Past president of EUREAU (Federation of European Water and Wastewater Services) and the EUREAU WG on Water Reuse. He was recently awarded by the Hellenic Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeology.

Wastewater Treatment, Recycling

Gideon Oron completed his studies in the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (All three degrees). After his D.Sc. graduation he spent one year for his post-doc in Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA. Upon his return to Israel he joined Blaustein Institute for Desert Research in Sde-Boker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. There he works on issues related water and non-conventional water resources in arid zone, field work and management modeling. Looking into optimization issues allows him to tackle large scale water problems.He has published close to 150 refereed reviewed articles in the leading world journals

Water Research,Desert Research

He received his Dr. Eng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1977 and pursued postgraduate education with fellowships from the University of Pisa and from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). He completed his graduate and postgraduate education and training as a research associate at Brown University, Providence, RI, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.Today, Paolo Dario is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in BioRobotics at SSSA, currently enrolling 92 PhD students.

Biorobotics,Recycling

Sandro Donnini Mancini is Materials Engineer and has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from Federal Universityof São Carlos. He was professor of the Chemical Engineering Department at Federal University of Ceará and he is now professor of Environmental Engineering Department at Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sorocaba Campus. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals.

Recycling and Waste Management

Dr. Fu-Shen Zhang is a professor and the director of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling Laboratory at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He went to Japan in 1998 as a Japanese government scholarship student upon the selection of the Embassy of Japan in Beijing, and he got his Ph.D in the field of environmental engineering from Tohoku University (Japan). He also carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan (USA) and Nagoya University (Japan). Since 2005, he has been worked in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a rewarded professor in “100-tenent” program. His recent research addresses effective recycling of solid wastes, including valuable materials recovery and functional materials development from e-waste, construction waste, municipal solid waste and bio-waste. Professor has guided tens of Ph.D, MSc students and several postdoctoral research fellows in the field of environmental engineering. He has published more than 30 peer review articles and obtained more than 10 patents in the past 5 years.

Recovery of valuable metals from solid waste,multi-industry cooperative utilization of polymer waste

Martina has received her PhD in 2012. Curently she is working as an Assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Her work deals with the development of processes to recover valuable metals from primary sources (ores, concentrates) and secondary sources (spent batteries, steel making dust, mining waste, WEEE, etc.). Her research spans over a broad range, from material pre-treatment all the way to industrial scale-up. She has vast experience with processing of batteries, having ten years experience in this field

Circular Economy, Recycling