Promoting Bodies

US-EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. The EPA has its headquarters in Washington, D.C., regional offices for each of the agency's ten regions, and 27 laboratories. The agency conducts environmental assessment, research, and education. It has the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing national standards under a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with state, tribal, and local governments. It delegates some permitting, monitoring, and enforcement responsibility to U.S. states and the federally recognized tribes. EPA enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.
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ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research

The Institute acts under the vigilance and policy guidance of the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea (Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare). ISPRA works with numerous European and international environmental scientific and technical institutes and organizations, in the implementation of its institutional mandate and in cooperation with the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea (MATTM), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (MIPAAF) and the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). WEBSITE
ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public body aimed at research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to enterprises, public administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development. Since its foundationin the 1960s, its strengths have been applied research, technology transfer and technical-scientific support to companies, associations, territories, central and local administrations: for this reason - unlike other research institutions - the Agency depends on the Ministry of Economic Development. Among the emerging issues, ENEA supports the productive system as well as public authorities (Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Economic Development in particular) in the transition towards the circular economy and the resource efficiency.
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EWABA - European Waste-based & Advanced Biofuels Association

Founded in 2013, the European Waste-based & Advanced Biofuels Association (EWABA) is representing the interests of the European waste-based and advanced biofuels industry. EWABA is a members-driven non-profit association that supports the promotion of waste-derived biofuels given their major contribution to the EU’s transport renewable fuel mix. The Association aims to secure public policies that enable large-scale deployment of sustainable biofuels across the EU, in the most efficient way possible. Through its advocacy, EWABA tries to address increasing inter-sectoral competition across the wider transport industry by incorporating climate mitigation effects at the core of its work.
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FEAD - European Waste Management Association

FEAD is the European Waste Management Association that represents the private waste management and resource industry across Europe. Their members are national waste management associations covering 19 countries in Europe, including Norway and the UK. They represent about 3,000 companies with activities in all forms of waste management. FEAD's objective is to advocate for a better regulatory framework for the waste management sector, to achieve the best economic and environmental outcomes, and to strengthen the circular economy in Europe.
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IWMSA - Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa

The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) is a multi-disciplinary non-profit association that is committed to supporting professional waste management practices. The organisation comprises of voluntary members who promote environmentally acceptable, cost effective and appropriate waste management practices. IWMSA strive towards the protection of the environment and people of southern Africa from the adverse effects of poor waste management by supporting sustainable best practical environmental options. The Institute contribute to the improvement of waste management standards and legislation, support international, national and regional trends in best environmental practices; promote the science and technology of waste management and practice affordable cost effective management of waste. Education and training in the realm of effective and efficient waste management is also a key focus of the organisation.
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JSMCWM - Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management

The Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management (JSMCWM) was originally established as The Japan Society of Waste Management in March 1990. This society has pursued various research activities around proper management of waste and promotion of recycling to respond to the demands of the time in anticipation of resource circulation. These activities have resulted in expansion of the legal system regarding waste management so that construction of sound material-cycle society has become major challenge for Japan and subject for JSMCWM. The main mission of the Society is to contribute to better solutions to solid waste management that faces always-new issues and problems, through providing its members with opportunities for exchanging findings, experience and expertise. JSMCWM has currently over 4,000 members that comprise of individual members, corporate members, local governments/municipalities and non-profit organizations. JSMCWM is internationally open and extends invitation to experts world-wide to join the Society.
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KSWM - Korea Society of Waste Management

The Korea Society of Waste Management (KSWM) was founded in 1983 as scientific engineering and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the theory and application of Waste Management Technology. Today the KSWM has more than 3.400 members, 4 regional sections and 7 technical divisions. The KSWM encourages the technical, social and cultural exchanges among the members. It endeavors to improve the technological level of academia and promote the development of technology through educational - industry cooperation.
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WtERT Germany - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Network

The Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Network (WtERT) is an international top-tier-technical group that brings together experts from industry, science and municipalities with the objective of advancing the goals of sustainable waste management on a global scale for the benefit of our environment and to humanity. WtERT- sister organizations are located in many countries across the world.
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AIAT - Italian Association of Environmental and Planning Engineers

AIAT - Association of Environmental and Planning Engineers, is a no-profit organisation established in 1999 to represent graduated and students in Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Then, in 2009, the representation has been extended at a national level. AIAT's main objective is the promotion of the role of the environmental engineer, a professional capable of tackling complex environmental issues with an integrated approach. Since 2003, AIAT is a member of EFAEP, and collaborated with it at the development of ENEP - European Network of Environmental Professionals, a web-portal collecting thousands of profiles of European environmental professionals. A second objective of AIAT, equally important, is to foster the exchange of information among the members, about 600 and active in many fields of expertise: pollution remediation and soil protection, energy management, climate changes, waste management, environmental monitoring, Environmental Management Systems, transports planning and many more.
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AICA - International Association for Environmental Communication

AICA - International Association for Environmental Communication was established in Alba (Italy) in 2003. AICA is a cultural project which aims to know, study, and promote environmental communication actions, on national and international level. It is led by founders, a scientific committee and ordinary partners. AICA's activities include: information and publishing, through its online magazine Envi.info; promotion and events management; research and education.
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GITISA - Italian Group of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering

The Italian Group of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering (GITISA) is the Association of professors in the scientific disciplinary sector of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering from over 25 Italian universities. The aim of the association is to promote and coordinate both teaching and research activities. To this end, it carries out its activity through working groups, assemblies and meetings, collaborating in the organization of conferences, symposiums, summer schools, also jointly with other associations and scientific bodies, both national and international.
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Tavolo di Roma - Think Tank on Sustainable Waste Management

Tavolo di Roma (TdR) is a “think-tank”, a multidisciplinary platform for fostering discussion on sustainable waste management, linking the scientific community, with politicians, administrators and society. Member of TdR are Italian Parliament members from the main parties, and no-stakeholder scientists from different fields (environmental engineering, law, economy, sociology, comunication, medicine, etc.).