STUDY VISIT STOPWASTE Lithuania

 
Preliminary agenda

Wednesday, June 12th (1st Meeting Day)

• 10:00 – 10:10    Welcome by Druskininkai municipality representative
• 10:10 – 10:20    Welcome by JSC Alytus region waste management centre director Aurimas Uldukis
• 10:20 – 10:35    Presentation of Lithuania and Alytus city
• 10:35 – 11:00    Vladimir Jankoit. Chief Executive Officer at Man rupi rytojus, JSC. Preparing electrical appliances for reuse: experiences, benefits and future insights.
• 11:00 – 11:25    Ruta Kukulskyte. Create Lithuania Project Manager at Invest Lithuania. Sustainable consumption: How to encourage consumers to repair broken items?11:25 –
• 11:50    Valdone Daugelaite - Suskevice. Co-founder at CupCup. Prevention of Single-use plastic: Reusable beverage cup reuse models at outdoor festivals and events.
• 11:50 – 12:15     Coffee Break
• 12:15– 12:40    Gabrielė Janilionytė, a representative of the initiative Com(e)posting 
• 12:40 – 12:55    Dr. Jolita Kruopienė. Kaunas University of Technology Institute of Environmental Engineering: Can the presence of hazardous substances hinder reuse and recycling.
• 12:55 – 13:20    Dr. Paulina Budrytė. Postdoctoral Fellow at KTU Faculty of Social Sciences: Environmental behaviour of the population: research on what shapes it, how it affects waste management.
• 13:20 – 13:40    Viktorija Nausede. Co-founder at TexTale. Towards circular textile system: an analyses of post-consumer textiles, recommendations for policy interventions and sector development
• 13:40 - 14:00    Artūras Torkelis. PhD student: Packaging waste management options.
• 14:00 – 15:00    Lunch
• 15:00 – 15:30    Virginija Vingriene. Representative of the Waste Policy Group of the Ministry of the Environment The national policy context for fixing items and its environmental space
• 15:30 – 15:50    Speaker clafifying. Guiding to Pro-Environmental Behavior Among Different People and in Different Contexts
• 15:50 – 16:10    Pr. Gintaras Denafas. KTU Department of Environmental Technology: Waste treatment in the Circular economy context.

Thursday, June 13th (2st Meeting Day)

• 10:00 – 12:00    Visit Alytus region waste management centre facility: mechanical sorting and biological treatment plants, green waste composting, food waste treatment. Presentation of good practices and the "Tiko Tiks" Re-Use Point
• 12:00 – 12:30     Coffee break
• 12:30 – 13:30    Travel to Elektrėnai
• 13:30 – 14:30    Visit to “Ekobazė”. Waste recycling centre.
• https://www.ekobaze.eu/?lang=en