ISWA Young Professionals Group
The ISWA Young Professionals Group is made up of ISWA members below 35 years old with a shared passion for Solid Waste Management, knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation.
To join the YPG, you must be an ISWA member and be under 35 years old. All YPGs are encouraged to volunteer for one of ISWA’s Working Groups. Requests to join the YPGs, a working group, proof of membership and proof of age can be sent to: ypg@iswa.org.
YPG Mentorship Programme 2025-2026
Since 2015, the ISWA YPG Mentorship Programme has connected young professionals with senior experts from across the global waste and resource management community. Through tailored mentor-mentee exchanges, participants gain technical insights, career guidance, and valuable international connections.
The 2025 edition brought together over 20 mentor-mentee pairings from around the world, each wrapping up with a collaborative blog, listed below.
#ISWAatIFAT: Main Stage Spotlight
ISWA took to the Orange Stage at IFAT, with special sessions featuring champions of the association and waste management sector. Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 This recent report on state of the waste sector was a collaboration between ISWA and the UNEP, meant...
Guest Blog: Something for everyone at the Winter School
I am always curious to learn more about waste management practices from all over the world. For this reason, I keep visiting ISWA or other such programs. Having heard about American landfills and their sustainable solution. Thus, the SWIS program at UTA was an obvious...
Guest Blog: “Suddenly” at the Winter School
"The best things in life happen suddenly." said Gazel de Klerk in our first conversation on the bus, leaving the landfill, when I had the pleasure of meeting her at the Winter School and receiving her invitation to write for ISWA blog. The whole experience that I will...
Guest Blog: Coffee chats at Winter School
Where does our waste go? What are residues? These and more questions are answered by ISWA-SWIS WINTER SCHOOL. It is not about attending a conventional course of a few hours, where you will soon start to get bored or stop paying attention, on the contrary, it is a...
Guest Blog: ISWA YPG Germany Visit to Hamburg’s Energy Hill
Over the past 12 years, the German Society for Waste Management (DGAW) has organized a scientific conference aimed at young researchers and business representatives to present the latest findings in the field of waste and resource management. This congress serves as a...
The Waste Management & Research Awards 2022
The “WM&R Best Paper Award” was introduced in 2015. It is an annual prize awarded to the most influential paper contributing to the current Impact Factor that is based on citations and quality of research. The WM&R Editorial team selects the award winning...
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