PETCO & Friends: Update on the Waste RDI Roadmap

Wed Aug 30, 17:00 - Wed Aug 30, 19:00

Milkplum Cafe

ABOUT

PETCO & Friends is a series of informal networking sessions addressing relevant topics in collaboration with key partners, with the aim of information dissemination, raising awareness and encouraging action.
 
This session provides an update on the Waste RDI Roadmap. Dr Linda Godfrey, principal scientist at the CSIR and associate professor at North-West University, will be presenting and leading the discussion.

Light refreshments will be provided. 

The Waste RDI Roadmap emanates in response to the Global Change Grand Challenge (GCGC) initiative, which recognises the economic opportunity for South Africa in mitigating climate change, under the "Green Economy". The Roadmap supports the goals of the National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS), National Development Plan (NDP), Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP), and Green Economy Accord, by providing the necessary scientific knowledge and technology to help improve the manner in which waste is managed in the country.
 
The vision of the Roadmap is to stimulate waste innovation Research and Development (R&D), and human capital development (HCD), through the investment in science and technology and in so doing, maximise the diversion of waste from landfill towards value-adding opportunities, including prevention of waste and the optimised extraction of value from reuse, recycling and recovery, in order to create significant economic, social and environmental benefit.

 
Find out more here: http://wasteroadmap.co.za/index.php

If you are a current PETCO Voting or Associate Member, you are entitled to a limited number of complimentary tickets and unlimited half price tickets. To get your unique member codes to access your tickets, contact our PETCO team at [email protected].

17:00 – 17:30                       Arrival & Registration
17:30 – 17:40                       Welcome & Setting the Scene                                                     
17:40 – 18:20                       Dr Linda Godfrey, CSIR: 
                                                    Update on South Africa’s Waste Roadmap: Trends and Opportunities
18:20 – 18:30                       Q & A facilitated by PETCO
18:30 – 19:00                       Networking


More about the speaker:

Linda Godfrey is a principal scientist at the CSIR and an associate professor at North-West University. She holds a PhD in engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She currently heads up the Waste Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap Implementation Unit on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology.

Her research interests include the role of the waste sector in transitioning South Africa to a green economy; waste innovation; waste economics; the governance, social and behavioural aspects of integrated waste management; and the role of waste information as policy and behaviour-change instrument.

Expertise: Waste management; Green economy.

 

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PETCO & Friends: Update on the Waste RDI Roadmap
Milkplum Cafe
2 Cussonia Ave, Koedoespoort 456-Jr, Pretoria, 0186, South Africa
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