Enzo Favoino

Enzo Favoino is a technical expert and researcher working at the Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, a not-for-profit research centre based in Northern Italy. He chairs the Scientific Committee of Zero Waste Europe.

He and his team have helped many Governmental Institutions and Local Authorities in various countries in scientific and technical issues related to optimisation of schemes for separate collection, definition and implementation of Zero Waste programmes, with a particular reference to options for the management of biowaste.

As a researcher he has published influential research over a 25 years period, on waste prevention, separation and recycling. He has specialised in organic waste and composting. He was one of the founders of the European Compost Network. He has frequently taken part as an invited expert in meetings, workshops, organised by the European Commission on Sustainable Waste Management and Source Separation. He has also taken part as an invited expert in the European Climate Change Programme, WG “Agriculture” and “Soils”.
He has been the first Technical Director of the Italian Composting association, CIC, Member of the Scientific Committee of ANPA (Italian National Environmental Protection Agency) and Chair of the WG “Biological Treatment” at ISWA (International Solid Waste Association).