Volume 3, No. 3-4, 2016




Guest Editors

Fabio Fava, born in 1963, is Full Professor of “Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology” at the School of Engineering of University of Bologna since 2005.
Dr. Fava is the coordinator of the FP7 projects NAMASTE (on the integrated exploitation of citrus and cereal processing by-products with the production of ingredients and new food products) and BIOCLEAN (aiming at developing biotechnological processes and strategies for the bioremediation and the tailored depolymerization of major oil-deriving plastics). He also coordinates the Unit of the University of Bologna participating in the FP7 projects ECOBIOCAP and ROUTES (on the production of microbial polymers from different organic waste and food processing effluents).
Other projects are MINOTAURUS and WATER4CROPS (on the intensified bioremediation of contaminated waste- and ground-water and the integrated decontamination and valorization of wastewater of the food processing industry and of biorefineries), and ULIXES and KILL-SPILL (on the development of strategies for intensifying the in situ bioremediation of marine sediments polluted by (chlorinated)hydrocarbons and for the isolation and industrial exploitation of microbes from those matrices).He is the Past- and the current vice-chairman of the “Environmental Biotechnology” section of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) . He is member of the “Task Force on Industrial Biotechnology” of the Working Party on Biotechnology of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, Paris). Further, he is joining the "High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies" and the "Expert Group on biobased products" of the DG-Enterprise and Industry of European Commission (Brussels), as well as the "Expert Group on eco-industries" of the JRC Directorate at the European Commission. Finally, he is the Italian Representative for Bioeconomy in Horizon2020 Programme Committee.
Grazia Totaro, born in 1976, has a degree in Chemistry (University of Ferrara), a Master’s Degree in Science, Technology & Management with a specialization in Environmental Chemistry (University of Ferrara) and a PhD in Materials Engineering, about modification, characterization and applications of technopolymers (University of Bologna). She worked at the R&D Centre of Basell Polyolefins in Ferrara for 2 years in the frame of a project addressed to the development of a novel methodology for qualitative and quantitative analysis of additives in polymers. She also worked at ARPA, Regional Agency for Environment in Ferrara, division Water Analysis. Then she started working at the school of Engineering of the University of Bologna for a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (2007-2010).
After that she had a scholarship "Spinner 2013" in cooperation with Reagens spa (San Giorgio di Piano) on novel PVC nanocomposites. Now she is post doc fellow at the same school on new polymer-based nanocomposites from renewable sources and inorganic fillers. She also worked at the laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologique et Toxicologique (Université Réné Descartes) in Paris in 2001 and was visiting professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, FR) in 2012. Dr. Totaro has about 13 scientific papers and several participations at conferences and scientific schools.


20th International Trade Fair of Material & Energy Recovery
and Sustainable Development, ECOMONDO,
8th-11th November, 2016, Rimini Fiera, Italy

Selected papers (3)



GRASSLAND RECOVERY IN A LANDFILL SITE IN ALTA MURGIA
Rocco Labadessa, Patrizia Pagone, Antonella Lomoro, Massimo Guido

CARBON FOOTPRINT EVALUATIONOF AN ITALIAN MICRO-BREWERY
Paola Masotti, Barbara Campisi, Paolo Bogoni

EXPLOITING HYDRAULIC MODEL TO ENHANCE WATER NETWORK OPERATION, PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND CONTROL WITH FDD ALGORITHMS
Domenico Perfido, Massimiliano Raciti, Chiara Zanotti, Schalk-Jan van Andel, Andrea Costa

APPLICABILITY OF DECENTRALIZED VERSUS CENTRALIZED DRINKING WATER PRODUCTION AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN AN OFFICE PARK AS EXAMPLE OF A SUSTAINBLE CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Kees Roest, Patrick Smeets, Tessa van den Brand, Ann Zwertvaegher, Hugo Cortial, Sanderine van Odijk, Enna Klaversma

PILOT PROJECT OF WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ZAMBIA: THE SUCCESSFUL REALITY OF KOINONIA, LUSAKA
Enrica Santolini, Ettore Selli, Alessandra Bonoli, Giacomo D’Amelio

CONTAMINATED MARINE SEDIMENTS: WASTE OR RESOURCE? AN OVERVIEW OF TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES
Francesco Todaro, Sabino De Gisi, Michele Notarnicola

A WEB-APP FOR IMPLEMENTING A ‘CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR’ FOR SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Salvatore Digiesi, Giorgio Mossa, Giovanni Mummolo, Rossella Verriello