Biography:

With 23 years of experience in waste characterization and management, Virginie Decottignies is the head of the Material Recycling & Recovery department at SUEZ CIRSEE research centre. She is involved with her team, in internal and collaborative research projects related to the characterization of waste (plastics, solid wastes and industrial liquid effluents) and the development of new ways of materials recycling and recovery from waste. Current projects cover End of Life products dismantling, materials sorting and mechanical / chemical processes to recover materials from waste, focusing on metals, plastics, and composite materials.

About SUEZ:

As a global leader in the water and waste management sectors, SUEZ has been operating for over 160 years all over the world, and provide essential services to protect the resource and improve quality of life. With operations in 40 countries and 40,000 employees, SUEZ also enable its customers – whether local authorities or industrial groups – to create value over the entire lifecycle of their assets and services, and to drive their ecological transition, together with their end-users. The group supplies drinking water to 57 million people, delivers wastewater treatment services to 36 million, recovers 10 million tons of waste each year with 2 million tons of secondary raw materials returned to market and produces 73.17 TWh of local and renewable energy.