ISWA adds member engagement officer

The Rotterdam, Netherlands-based International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) has announced Raelyn Chwee as its new membership engagement manager and has added Germany-based MVW Lechtenberg & Partner as a corporate member.

New staff member Chwee is from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and worked for more than eights years as a staff member of the Waste Management Association of Malaysia (WMAM).

“Through my many years in WMAM I have grown my passion for waste and environmental issues and I’m keen to grow and progress in the environmental and waste industry,” Chwee says. “I’m really excited to be part of the ISWA family and it truly is an honor to be part of the ISWA. I am looking forward to working closely with all our members and partners.”

ISWA also has announced MVW Lechtenberg & Partner as a silver-level member. It describes the firm as having more than 30 years of experience as a consulting firm in the field of efficient and sustainable use of alternative fuels.

The consultancy has a waste tie-in via its efforts to develop concepts for the processing of domestic waste and other wastes into alternative fuels, thus “checking the environmentally relevant and process specific influences on cement, lime and power production worldwide.”

Dirk Lechtenberg, managing director, of MVW Lechtenberg & Partner, says, “ISWA is building a roadmap for sustainable waste management and MVW Lechtenberg & Partner wants to be part of it by actively contributing by sharing our expertise in alternative fuels from different waste streams and [by exchanging] knowledge with the expert network of ISWA”

ISWA describes itself as the only worldwide waste association and has having members in 110 countries, spanning “the whole waste sector for the promotion and development of sustainable waste management across the world.”

ISWA will be hosting its 2022 World Congress in Singapore from Sept. 21-23. More information, including how to register, can be found here.