- Circular economy
- Source separation schemes for solid waste
- Biological treatment techniques (composting & anaerobic digestion)
- Waste-to-energy technologies & Energy from Waste (biomass, oil sludge, syngas, etc.)
- Recycling & Resources Recovery
- EU policies and strategies for solid waste management
- Solid waste prevention techniques
- Household solid waste treatment technologies
- Socio-economic issues related to solid waste management
- Household solid waste collection techniques
- Integrated management in islands & other isolated areas
- Characterization of waste residues
- Smart technologies & Decision support tools in the waste management field
- Symbiosis and Network
- Waste valorisation
- Carbon & water footprint
- Water circular economy
- Recovery of materials from wastewater & sludge
- Energy saving
- Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Potential in Industry
- Food Economy, Policy and Culture
- Environmental assessment and management in the food Industry
- Environmental footprint analysis in the food sector
- Energy-land-food-water nexus
- LCA as a decision support tool in policy making in the food Industry
- Food waste management and bio-economy
- Circular economy and resource efficiency in the food industry
- Business models and investment for tomorrow's food systems
- Marine Litter
- Hazardous Waste
- Biorefineries
- Biotechnology
- Management of specific waste streams (construction & demolition waste, WEEE, etc)
- Sludge management
- Agricultural and/or livestock waste
- Flows of multi-sized (macro-, micro- and nano-) plastic waste, including current management strategies
- Toxicity and eco-toxicity of multi-sized plastic waste particles (especially at long-term / high exposure)
- Eco-efficient solutions to reduce plastic waste’s impacts:
- Plastic waste environmental impacts: assessment and prediction
- Multi-actors approaches and stakeholders behaviour related to plastic waste such as consumer perception, policy makers awareness, industrial lobbying, legislation and R&D investments etc
- Brine Management & Treatment
- Metal / salt recovery from brine