Featuring impartial industry experts and academic researchers in a highly interactive webinar, this unique, full-day conference presented current findings on energy recovery within a broad waste management context, with a focus on the issues of most concern to decision-makers and stakeholders. Participants gained insights into knowledge gaps, policy options, and pathways to connect ideas with investment and lead to start the plan to build a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) facility in the region of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario.

Many municipalities are exploring new ways to manage municipal solid waste. They often have questions about how waste-to-energy technologies are different, how they work, and the economic and environmental implications for using these technologies.

WtE technologies are in operation around the world. But how do these technologies work and what are the economic and environmental implications for managing waste? What role does WtE have as we try to build a Circular Economy and promote reduction and recycling in Ontario to face the shortage of landfills and reduce exporting residual waste in the USA?

The webinar provided attendees with an overview of the different technologies from leading global Waste-to-Energy experts and assist them develop a greater understanding of how these technologies work and the opportunities and challenges of local implementation.

The Conference addressed these key topics:

1. Changing perceptions about waste to energy facilities and their role within an integrated waste management strategy.
2. Health and environmental impacts.
3. The role of Academia to disseminate credible information and facts about Waste-to-Energy technologies.
4. When and where to start building a Waste-to-energy facility in Sarnia Lambton and other Communities in Ontario.

The webinar was held on Thursday, March 8th, 2022 from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.

You can watch the full webinar on the link bellow:

Webinar Schedule & Proceedings

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A 4-year commitment

“I’m delighted and honoured to represent Concordia at the national level,” says Mulligan, a Concordia University Research Chair in Geoenvironmental Sustainability.

Previously, she was senior vice president and president elect, respectively. After her year as president, she will be the past president for 12 months.

“It’s a four-year commitment, in total,” she notes. “That allows you to make an impact.”

Mulligan wears the honour humbly, as she did when she became a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering earlier this year. In 2018, she also received the coveted John B. Stirling Medal for career achievement from the Engineering Institute of Canada.

“When I started studying to be a chemical engineer, people were using biological surfactants to bind with oil to remove it from tanks and fields. But I was the first to use biological surfactants to remove metal contaminants from soil,” says Mulligan, the author of Sustainable Engineering.

“Decontamination — soil washing to remove metal — put her on the map in the field of geoenvironmental engineering. Then Dr. Mulligan gained more than 25 years of research experience in government, industrial and academic environments. I can’t think of a more dynamic, deserving candidate. Her appointment raises Concordia’s profile as an institution that supports innovation.”

Rolling up her sleeves

As the founding director of the Concordia Institute for Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems (CIWESS), Mulligan continues to research new systems, technologies and solutions for water, energy and resource conservation.

The CIWESS launched with a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) six-year CREATE grant, focusing on socially conscious and eco-friendly engineering practices that educate students in methods of preserving our planet.

Eight years later, the institute has trained more than 70 students into highly qualified personnel. It’s home to 12researchers at Concordia.

“We’re looking at low-energy water treatments, how to make methane from wastewater and how to design water treatment in collaboration with communities,” explains Mulligan, who works in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

“In gold mining areas, where they use cyanide to leach gold from ore, we’re researching how to remove nitrogen from wastewater using microorganisms.”

Cleaning Lac Caron and Lac Johanne

This summer, Mulligan is engrossed in a project in the Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs region of Quebec. 

She’s the lead on a three-year NSERC-funded initiative with industry partner Titan Environmental Containment, who make geomembranes, among other things.

“We’re focusing on two at-risk lakes, Lac Caron and Lac Johanne,” Mulligan says. “One lake has an overgrowth of algae and the other lake is brownish from degraded organic materials in the water.”

Mulligan and her team are running tests at the two lakes and feeding water into the filtration systems made in part of geotextiles.

“The idea is to monitor changes in the water, then strategically place the filter where it will be the most effective and efficient, most likely near the wetlands that feed into Lac Johanne,” explains Mulligan.

She recently published an article titled “Energetic and economic feasibility of a combined membrane-based process for sustainable water and energy systems” in Applied Energy.

Mulligan is teaching this summer while replying to daily emails from executives and members of the CSCE.

“I’ve ramped up to this job over the last two years, so hopefully there are no big surprises,” she says. “It’s humbling to have the opportunity to serve the community in this way.”

The Conference aims to address the significant issue of sustainable solid waste management through the promotion of safe practices & effective technologies.

The Conference focuses mainly on modern solid waste technologies. It aims to stimulate the interest of scientists and citizens and inform them about the latest developments in the field of municipal solid waste management.

The Conference will provide an opportunity to bring together scientists & professionals from government departments, industries, Municipalities, private institutions, research & education institutions, being a forum for the exchange of the most recent ideas, techniques & experiences in all areas of solid waste management. A special full one-day workshop will also focus on representatives of local authorities and municipalities in order to promote integrated solid waste management schemes.

WtERT Canada will participate and has submitted an abstract for online presentation.

More information about the program and registration to the conference can be found in this link bellow:

https://www.thessaloniki2021.uest.gr