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LIFE LEACHLESS participates in LIFE Networking session in Greece

LIFE LEACHLESS participates in LIFE Networking session in Greece

On 22 June, within the activities framed within the 10th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management CHANIA 2023, held in Crete (Greece), the project participated in a Networking session of LIFE projects. The conference, organised by the National...

LIFE LEACHLESS holds its latest monitoring meeting

LIFE LEACHLESS holds its latest monitoring meeting

Last June 1st, the current monitoring expert of the ELMEN EEIG project, Patricia Serrano, visited the facilities of the Cartif Technology Centre in Boecillo (Valladolid), to carry out the last monitoring meeting of the LIFE LEACHLESS project before its completion....

LIFE LEACHLESS present at the IDEAS 2023 conference

LIFE LEACHLESS present at the IDEAS 2023 conference

Members of the LIFE LEACHLESS project team of the Fundación Cartif attended the conference “Soluciones para nuevos retos ambientales” (Solutions for new environmental challenges), organised by the Asociación Española de Abastecimientos de Agua y Saneamiento (AEAS) and...

Project completes demonstration phase in Ano Liosia

Project completes demonstration phase in Ano Liosia

The demonstration step of the plant in the second demonstration scenario (the Ano Liosia landfill in Athens, Greece) was completed at the beginning of May. The plant has been operating for four months in the Greek scenario, treating the leachate generated at the...

Pilot plant completes installation and will start commissioning

Pilot plant completes installation and will start commissioning

After receiving the containerised pilot plant in Athens (Greece), it was moved to the Ano Liosia landfill (in Athens itself), the site selected as the second demonstration site for the pilot plant. During the last few weeks, the staff of the National Technical...

LIFE LEACHLESS receives another visit from monitoring expert

LIFE LEACHLESS receives another visit from monitoring expert

On Monday 13th June the monitoring expert visited the facilities of Fundación Cartif in Boecillo (Valladolid). The purpose of the visit was to carry out a new monitoring meeting of the LIFE LEACHLESS project. Representatives of the three beneficiaries of the project...

Pilot plant moves to Athens

Pilot plant moves to Athens

In the last few days, arrangements are being made for the dismantling and transport of the pilot plant to the second site where the pilot plant will be operating, the Ano Liosia landfill in Athens (Greece). At the end of October, members of the LIFE LEACHLESS project...

LIFE LEACHLESS guest project at the ECOMONDO Fair 2021

LIFE LEACHLESS guest project at the ECOMONDO Fair 2021

A few days ago (26-29 October) the 24th edition of the Green Technology Expo ECOMONDO 2021 took place. The conference hold at the Rimini Expo Centre in the Italian city of Rimini Ecomondo is the reference event in Europe regarding the ecological transition and new...

LIFE LEACHLESS participates in THESSALONIKI 2021 Conference

LIFE LEACHLESS participates in THESSALONIKI 2021 Conference

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management THESSALONIKI 2021 was held from June 23-26. The conference, which was originally scheduled for summer 2020, had to be postponed to 2021, due to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. However, this...

LIFE LEACHLESS project receives visit from monitoring expert

LIFE LEACHLESS project receives visit from monitoring expert

Last May 19th, on the occasion of the 5th monitoring meeting of the LIFE LEACHLESS project, the consortium received the visit of Neemo's monitoring expert (Ms. Cristina Vicente). During the visit, the monitoring expert was able to observe first-hand the operation of...

LIFE LEACHLESS in the final event of LIFE METHAMORPHOSIS

LIFE LEACHLESS in the final event of LIFE METHAMORPHOSIS

The final event of the LIFE METHAMORPHOSIS project was held on 29 September. This project, led by Aqualia, has implemented a series of innovative technologies in the field of the environment and climate change to provide a solution for the treatment of waste water and...

Barcelona hosts the “LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting”

Barcelona hosts the “LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting”

The LIFE LEACHLESS project has participated in the “LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting”, in Barcelona (Spain), on 29 and 30 January 2020. The Urban Waste Water Treatment (UWWT) Directive is one of the oldest pieces of EU legislation. Many Member States are...

LIFE LEACHLESS goes to ECOMONDO

LIFE LEACHLESS goes to ECOMONDO

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project, attended last week ECOMONDO, the leading event in Europe for the new models of circular economy. The event took place between 3 and 6 November in Rimini (Italy). ECOMONDO consisted of an international exhibition with an...

LIFE LEACHLESS is part of the World Waste Congress, ISWA 2019

LIFE LEACHLESS is part of the World Waste Congress, ISWA 2019

The ISWA World Congress is the most important congress in the world in the field of waste management. The 29th ISWA World Congress was held at the Palacio de Congresos y de la Música Euskalduna in Bilbao (Spain), from 7 to 9 October 2019. Bilbao welcomed around 1,500...

LIFE LEACHLESS in the researchers’ night 2019

LIFE LEACHLESS in the researchers’ night 2019

Researchers from the NTUA team presented the LIFE LEACHLESS project during "Researchers' Night" at the National Technical University of Athens on September 27, 2019. The "Researchers' Night" is a European Union initiative aimed at familiarising the public with the...

LIFE LEACHLESS promoting the Circular Economy

LIFE LEACHLESS promoting the Circular Economy

The LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the Innovation Workshop "Circular economy in cities: the need for a change in production model, consumption and distribution in a sustainability key" framed in the Regional Program Centr@tec and coordinated by the Institute of...

LIFE LEACHLESS attends HERAKLION 2019 Congress

LIFE LEACHLESS attends HERAKLION 2019 Congress

The LIFE LEACHLESS project was represented at the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA and held from 26-29 June in Heraklion, on the Greek island of Crete. The Conference aimed to address the important issue of...

USAL students know the LIFE LEACHLESS project

USAL students know the LIFE LEACHLESS project

El pasado jueves la Fundación Cartif recibió en sus instalaciones de Valladolid a un grupo de estudiantes del Grado de Química de la Universidad de Salamanca (USAL). Durante la visita, el grupo tuvo la ocasión de conocer de primera mano el trabajo diario que se...

LIFE LEACHLESS attends CUBAGUA 2019

LIFE LEACHLESS attends CUBAGUA 2019

From March 19 to 22, representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the CUBAGUA 2019 Conference held in Havana (Cuba). CUBAGUA 2019 propitiated and provided the ideal scenario for the exchange of knowledge, the dissemination of updated information and the...

LIFE LEACHLESS is presented at CONAMA 2018

LIFE LEACHLESS is presented at CONAMA 2018

The 14th edition of the National Congress on the Environment, Conama 2018, was held in Madrid (Spain) from 26 to 29 November. It is a biennial meeting that, in the time since its first edition in 1992, has become the environmental event of reference in Spain for...

LIFE LEACHLESS present at the NUTRI2CYCLE Kick-off meeting

LIFE LEACHLESS present at the NUTRI2CYCLE Kick-off meeting

The kick-off meeting of the H2020 NUTRI2CYCLE project was held in Ghent (Belgium) on 22 and 23 November. NUTRI2CYCLE project addresses the current gaps in the N, P and C cycles of different European agricultural systems and the related environmental problems by...

LIFE LEACHLESS supporting the launch of the NUTRIMAN project

LIFE LEACHLESS supporting the launch of the NUTRIMAN project

The launch meeting of the H2020 NUTRIMAN project took place on 25 and 26 October in Brussels. The NUTRIMAN project is a Nitrogen and Phosphorus thematic network compiling knowledge “ready for practice” for such recovered product applications, practices and...

LIFE LEACHLESS with Horizon 2020

LIFE LEACHLESS with Horizon 2020

On 20 June, a workshop was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Madrid to present proposals in calls for proposals for the Horizon 2020 Bioeconomy, organised by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)....

LIFE LEACHLESS at the NAXOS 2018 Conference

LIFE LEACHLESS at the NAXOS 2018 Conference

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project attended the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA and held from 13-16 June on the Greek island of Naxos. The Conference aimed to address the significant issue of sustainable...

Students from USAL know about the LIFE LEACHLESS project

Students from USAL know about the LIFE LEACHLESS project

Last Wednesday a group of 25 students from the University of Salamanca who are studying their Chemistry degree visited the facilities of Fundación Cartif in Valladolid. During the tour, the group had the opportunity to learn about the activities that are being carried...

LIFE LEACHLESS at the EC Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference

LIFE LEACHLESS at the EC Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference

Representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project took part in the Circular Economy Conference for Stakeholders that took place in Brussels on 20 and 21 February. Two years after the adoption of the Circular Economy by the European Union (December 2015), more than half of...

ISWA World Congress Bilbao 2019. Save the date

ISWA World Congress Bilbao 2019. Save the date

From the LIFE LEACHLESS project we want to emphasize that the ISWA World Congress will be held in Bilbao between October 7 and 9, 2019. This congress follows guidelines that are in accordance with the philosophy of the LIFE Program. For this event, more than 2,000...

STRING project visits CARTIF’s facilities

STRING project visits CARTIF’s facilities

Researchers from LIFE LEACHLESS project have taken part in this visit yesterday, and they have been talking with them about the objectives, actions and expected results of the project of leachate treatment. This visit, organized by the Institute for Business...

SARDINIA 2017 welcomes LIFE projects

SARDINIA 2017 welcomes LIFE projects

The 16th edition of the Sardinia Symposium on Waste Management and Landfill was held in Forte Village, Santa Margherita di Pula (Cagliari) Italy, from October 2nd to October 6th, 2017.The event was attended by 676 participants (researchers, technicians,...

LIFE LEACHLESS and the innovation in the agroforestry sector

LIFE LEACHLESS and the innovation in the agroforestry sector

On 29 September, a workshop on innovation in the agro-food and forestry sectors was held in Madrid, at the facilities of the Directorate-General for Rural Development and Forestry Policy, with the dissemination of the work of the EIP AGRI Focus Groups. The...

LEACHLESS team at the researcher´s night in Athens

LEACHLESS team at the researcher´s night in Athens

On Friday 29th of September the NTUA team participated in the Researcher’s night Greece 2017 in the framework of the annual European Researchers’ Night which took place in 300 cities and 29 countries. European Researchers’ Night is supported by the Marie...

ATHENS2017 welcomes LIFE LEACHLESS project

ATHENS2017 welcomes LIFE LEACHLESS project

The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, organised by NTUA, was held in Athens from 21st to 24th of June. The Conference gathered around 500 attendants who presented more than 200 oral communications and 140 posters. The project LIFE...

Collaboration between LIFE LEACHLESS and the group SERTEGO

Collaboration between LIFE LEACHLESS and the group SERTEGO

Last week, representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project met at CARTIF facilities with María Bartolomé, from the SERTEGO group, to analyze possible collaboration paths in leachate management and recovery. SERTEGO is one of the main operators in the...

Metal mining, a sector of interest for the LEACHLESS project

Metal mining, a sector of interest for the LEACHLESS project

Today, the kick-off meeting of the Interreg ESMIMET project “Development of interregional capacities around the strategic resources of metallic mining” took place in the facilities of Fundación CARTIF. The project aims to boost research, technological development and...

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