Towards Zero Waste

water, waste and emissions reduction for the same company in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago. Mr. Carpio-Aguilar applied Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool to develop environmental, economic and quality indicators for a cardboard recycling policy. This investigation was a result of a research stay programme at the CSTM department of the University of Twente in The Netherlands. The programme had a focus on sustainability, waste management and best available practises for the industry. Mr. Carpio-Aguilar has experience on Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Regulatory Framework, Life Cycle Management, Carbon Footprint Lead Auditor, ISO9001 - ISO14001 and ISO 22000 Internal Auditor, GRI training program and Supply Chain Management. Co-organizer of the "4th International Symposium on Circular Economy: Inspiring Sustainable Innovation", in collaboration with "Tecnológico de Monterrey", EGADE, GIN and Unilever. Speaker in different international Symposiums and Congresses related to waste and water management, Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability strategies.

Prof.dr. Hans Th.A. Bressers (1953) is professor of Policy Studies and Envi­ronmental Policy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and founder of the CSTM, the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, one of the departments of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences. At the university level, he is the Chair of the Twente Water Centre, that bundles the over 150 water management researchers of all technical, natural science and policy oriented faculties of the University of Twente. Previously he has been, inter alia, vice-chairman of the official permanent Evaluation Committee of the Environmental Management Act, which advised the Minister regularly on the efficacy of Dutch environmental policy. He was also the chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Dutch Minister for the Environment for the implementation of environmental policy by local government and has been chairman of the Dutch social science association for envi­ronmental and energy research, SWOME and until recently an independent scientific member of the Commission on Sustainable development of the Dutch Social-Economic Council (SER). Currently, he is at the Dutch national level member of the national Advisory Committee on Water, that was chaired by the Prince of Orange until April 2013 when he became king. His dissertation on the effectiveness of Dutch water quality management (1983) won the annual award for best Dutch Public Administration book. In over three hundred articles, chapters, and books and a similar number of reports, conference papers and presentations (both in Dutch and in English) he published on policy -evaluation, - instruments, -networks, and -implementation, mostly applied on environmental and sustainability oriented policies. He has been researcher and project leader of numerous externally funded projects, including several projects funded by EU research frameworks, Dutch national science foundation, national priority research programmes, Dutch ministries, etcetera. As a PhD advisor, he has led 47 researchers to their graduation before 2017.