Holcim confab on waste management
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Lead Consultant, Geocycle, Hans-Ulrich Nehm |
Geocycle, the waste management arm of Holcim Lanka, which offers
environmentally responsible waste management solutions to treat
hazardous waste, recently organized an international conference on Safe
and Secure Management of Hazardous Materials. The focus of the
conference was the critical issue of handling hazardous materials
responsibly as one of society's most significant environmental
challenges. Foreign and local speakers addressed participants via
detailed sessions on the safe and environmentally responsible management
of hazardous waste.
Lead Consultant, Geocycle (part of the Lafarge-Holcim Group),
Hans-Ulrich Nehm who has vast experience in the application of
alternative fuels and secondary raw materials obtained from waste, said
that co-processing eliminates waste, primarily hazardous waste, in
suitable industrial processes while potentially useful components of the
waste are used in the main process. The extreme process conditions in
cement manufacturing guarantee the full destruction of all hazardous
organics while the ash components are used as raw material.
"Sri Lanka is ahead of many because of the excellent level of
understanding," he said. "The problem is that humans generate a lot of
waste, and most people would not even recognize their own waste a few
days after they discard it in the early stages of decomposition. In many
cases we have to segregate the waste again in a way that it can be
destroyed safely, partially serving as a fuel," Nehm said.
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