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## Szantó: "We need to educate – educate and increase awareness in order to move from recycling to generating the lowest rate of waste"

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Marcel Szantó, a lecturer at the Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile, has declared that to reduce the generation of waste it is necessary to "educate, educate and educate". Szantó gave the opening lecture, entitled "Waste and Circular Economy: Strategies to Advance towards Zero Waste" at the 10th Ibero-American Symposium on Waste Engineering held at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló on 20, 21 and 22 June.

The problem of waste generation, the doctor commented, can be solved with "education reinforced by technology", and although we cannot achieve zero waste because "rejects will always exist", we can reduce the number of landfills that exist and "take the children who live there back to school and improve the lives of millions of people".

In his opinion, it is necessary to redress the current situation in which it is estimated that around 50% of the total food production is wasted; to imitate nature in the way it recovers and regenerates; and to change the paradigm, because the circular economy that is now being proposed has always existed and, as he put it, therein lies the key: in "educating and raising awareness to move from recycling to generating the lowest rate of waste".

Marcel Szantó Narea holds a Doctorate in Civil Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Pollution; he is also a Construction Engineer. He is a senior lecturer at the Catholic University of Valparaíso and a member of the National Environmental Council as a scientific representative of the Chilean Council of Rectors. He won the European Award for International Environmental Cooperation and the DIRSA Award in 2013.

His lecture was preceded by the opening ceremony presided over by the Rector of the UJI, Eva Alcón, accompanied by Francisco Candela, Regional Secretary for Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition; Ignasi García, representing the Castelló Provincial Council; María España, Councillor of the Castelló de la Plana Town Council; and Antonio Gallardo, President of the Organising Committee.

In the Rector's opinion, "a strategic combination of efforts made by governments, businesses and individuals, as well as in the scientific and technological fields, is necessary to meet the challenges posed by waste management and environmental protection". For this reason, Eva Alcón said, "it is essential to generate knowledge and technology with a critical spirit and to open up spaces for dialogue, such as this symposium".

She congratulated the Waste Engineering Group of the UJI and the organising committee of this symposium for their dedication to the event and, at the same time, expressed her gratitude to the Ibero-American Environmental Sanitation Network for promoting the exchange of knowledge in this field for two decades. She also thanked the public organisation Reciplasa, the Town Council and the Provincial Council of Castelló for their support, as well as the Vice-Rector for Research and all the people involved for their efforts to improve life in the cities and towns.

The regional secretary for Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, Francisco Candela, explained that the Valencian Community has managed to halve the amount of waste going to landfill in the last six years and that this achievement "has been the result of the good practices followed by citizens and the administration".

For his part, the president of Reciplasa and representative of the Provincial Council, Ignasi García, encouraged the participants in the symposium to take advantage of these days to "share knowledge, good experiences and challenges to achieve a better world". In the same vein, the councillor of the Castelló de la Plana Town Council, María España, urged citizens, academics and professionals to take advantage of all initiatives "in order to keep the planet cleaner and greener".

Finally, the president of the organising committee, Antonio Gallardo, head of the Waste Engineering research group at the public university of Castelló, thanked all the sponsors and institutions for their support, "without which it would not have been possible to hold this symposium" and assured that "public involvement is fundamental in this challenge".

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