12th International Water Association Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries

Local Organizer: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • AGRO2025

The idea of providing a scientific basis for solving environmental problems in agro-industries under the leadership of Turkish National Committee on Water Pollution Research and Control (IWA Turkey) initiated the First International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries held in Istanbul in 1989.  The wide interest and high quality contributions of participating scientists established a series of IWA symposia, with ten more events held in İstanbul, Mexico City, Shiga, Seoul, Amsterdam, Çeşme, Rhodos, and Gdansk, contributing to sustainable waste management in agro-industries for 35 years.

The “12th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries” will be organized once again, after a long time, in İstanbul, the fascinating historical city, by Prof. Işık Kabdaşlı and Prof. Taku Fujiwara as co-chairs. The symposium will be an exciting scientific event covering a broad range of topics from conventional physico-chemical and biological treatment practices to climate change mitigation and adaptation, with specific emphasis on circular economy, life cycle assessment, resource recovery and waste valorisation applications within Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus. The upcoming AGRO’2025 is expected to attract many researchers, industry leaders and public authorities all around the world with its proven success in the previous Agro Symposia.

Topics

  • Biological treatment of wastewaters and wastes
  • Chemical treatment of wastewaters and wastes
  • Nutrient removal and recovery
  • Resources recovery and reuse
  • Advanced treatment processes and innovative technological applications
  • Modelling and design interaction
  • Sludge stabilization, utilization and disposal
  • Treatment and use of waste from stockbreeding
  • Run-off and control of pollutants from agricultural areas
  • Innovative water and waste management system for agricultural area
  • The climate change mitigation and adaptation in agro-industries
  • Soil pollution and management
  • Innovative solutions for wastewater reuse
  • Sustainable production of bioactives (bio-char, bio-oil, bio-gas)
  • Trends and challenges of by-product utilization in agro-industries
  • Life-Cycle Assessment in agro-Industries
  • Sustainable valorisation strategies of agro-wastes
  • Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus in agro-industries
  • Circular economy for agro-Industries
  • Impacts of carbon border adjustment mechanism on agro-industries
  • Fate and transport of micropollutants
  • European Green Deal in agro-industries
  • Sustainable nitrogen management in agriculture and agro-industries