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By-products: problems and opportunities
By-products: problems and opportunities
Feb 08, 2024 10:30 AM — Feb 08, 2024 01:30 PM Milano

The conference aims to analyze, also considering the latest news, the legislation - European, national and regional - and jurisprudence regarding by-products. The circular economy promotes, among other things, the reduction of waste and therefore also the valorisation of by-products. It should take place in environmentally safe conditions so as not to disqualify the use of by-products and also not to become an instrumental shortcut to cut waste management costs and to generate unfair competition with industrial waste recycling activities.

Published the handbook "Methods for estimating turbidity levels in marine areas evaluation and management criteria"
Published the handbook "Methods for estimating turbidity levels in marine areas evaluation and management criteria"
Jan 09, 2024

The document provides an overview of the existing tools to characterize the variability of turbidity in different marine areas (i.e. coastal, confined coastal and offshore). In particular, it outlines a complete framework supporting the statistical characterization of background turbidity values to provide a representation of the effects of natural and anthropic processes that determine the ordinary turbidity values of a site.

Future Minerals Forum
Future Minerals Forum
Jan 09, 2024 — Jan 09, 2024 Riyadh

The ISPRA Geological Service will participate in the geological services table as part of the Future Minerals Forum which will be held in Riyadh on January 9th afternoon. Critical and strategic subjects for the sustainable ecological and energy transition, the topics that ISPRA researchers will discuss during the event.