WELCOME MESSAGE & GREETINGS

Distinguished Guests, Esteemed Colleagues and Friends,

It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome you, both as a session chair and keynote speaker, to the Global Summit on Recycling and Waste Management, scheduled for March 24-25, 2025, in the dynamic and vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain.

This highly anticipated event will bring together over 50 subject experts from around the globe, including thought leaders, industry professionals, policymakers, and environmental advocates. Our goal is to address the pressing challenges and explore the innovative opportunities in the field of recycling and waste management.

Attendees will have the chance to engage in 4+ hours of networking sessions, participate in panel discussions, and attend workshops designed to deepen their understanding of the latest trends, technologies, and policies driving change in our field.

 Join us as we collaborate to minimize waste, conserve resources, and ensure our planet thrives. We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona in March 2025.

Warm regards,

Dr. Roger Achkar

Director General, Global Waste Cleaning Network (GWCN), Bury St. Edmunds, UK

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Dear Esteemed Guests and Participants,

Industrialization having been promoted from the 18th century has improved material affluence. This is being achieved by using natural resources and discharging wastes to nature in the process of producing/distributing/consuming goods and services. Nature has a limited capacity to provide humans with resources and to absorb the wastes discharged by humans. This limitation is termed the carrying capacity of nature.

World Resources Institute has reported that as of 2000, the carrying capacity of nature has exceeded 2.50 times at a global level. The various current environmental problems such as resource depletion and climate change, etc. are the evidences.

Nature can exist without humans, but humans can’t survive without nature. This is why the existence mode of human survival should not exceed the carrying capacity of nature. In this context, the Earth Environment Summit 1992 has adopted sustainable development as the way of human existence mode within the carrying capacity of nature.

The theme of Recycling 2025, Recycling and Waste Management is a core means to achieve sustainable development through saving natural resources and less generation and discharge of wastes, which are the two main conceptual components of the carrying capacity of nature. 

In such a context, it is no doubt that Recycling 2025 will be directly a significant and important platform for advancing the knowledge and technology of this field through presentation and discussions, but indirectly for contributing to sustainable development at a global level through providing the advanced knowledge and technology applicable to the field.

We are deeply honored to host the distinguished assembly of experts, policymakers, enterprisers, NGOs, and thought leaders, etc. who will contribute their invaluable insights.

With warm regards,

Prof and Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong  

Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, South Korea

Emeritus Professor at Jeju National University, South Korea