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DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Institute for Waste Management and Contaminated Sites Treatment

The Dresden University of Technology was founded in 1828 and is among Germany's oldest universities of technology. It is the largest university in the State of Saxony, with more than 30 000 students and 4 500 employees, including about 480 p rofessors. The 14 faculties cover a wide range of fields in science and engineering, humanities, social sciences and medicine. In addition to the wide range of courses available to students, the university offers 16 programs for international study.

The Institute for Waste Management and Contaminated Sites Treatment at the Dresden University of Technology was founded by the cooperation of the chair for waste management and the chair of contaminated site treatment in December 1995. The institute is provided with modern laboratories, lecture rooms, and has large spatial capacities for research reactors at its disposal. The combination of research topics in waste management, in contaminated site treatment and systems analysis in a single institute facilitates the approach to a wide area of related problems in environmental science. Research in the field of waste management concentrates on subjects like:

• Risk assessment and long-term behaviour of landfills
• Development of waste collection strategies and waste fees
• Thermal and mechanical treatment of waste
• Development of new recycling methods and production of refuse derived fuel
• Biological and thermal treatment of waste
• Research on endocrine disruptors in sewage sludge and soilS

The Institute among others was and is involved in a number of EU-supported projects, such as the European network for specification of chain management tools for environmental analysis of metabolised use, takeback and recycling (CHAINET), the European Urban Waste Management Cluster (EUWMC) and acts as co-ordinator of the international research co-operation on variable rate pricing in urban waste management (PAYT).