Marco Ricci-Jürgensen, Autor bei Urbanet

About Marco Ricci-Jürgensen

Marco has more than 20 years of experience in planning, designing and up-grading consistent MSW management schemes and assessing recycling facilities (focus on composting and biogas). He was engaged in projects in in Europe, Latin America and Asia. With a specific expertise for MSW solutions in cities he supported the City of Milan (Italy) in setting up the recycling scheme for food waste and defined the strategy for organic waste diversion and recycling for the Mega-City of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Currently he is a senior expert at the Italian Composting and Biogas Association, Chair of ISWA’s working Group on biological treatment of waste, Chair of the ECN Task Group on compostable plastics.

Sao Paulo’s Strategy for Organic Waste Management

Sao Paulo’s Strategy for Organic Waste Management

By Marco Ricci-Jürgensen|2024-01-03T16:19:21+01:00April 11th 2019|Sustainable Infrastructure|

In Brazil, Latin America’s largest country in terms of population, the City of Sao Paulo is committed to recycle organics. In 2015, the City embarked on a journey towards separate collection of organics, thus enabling the production of high-quality compost.