16 JUN 2026 10:00 weTHINK. online Waste Circularity Event Legal perspectives and trends on national and European level for RDF/SRF, Alternative Raw Materials and End of Waste. Technical challenges and innovation/ best practices for Carbon Capture Abatement

Event Agenda

weTHINK. Waste Circularity & CCUS Technology Online Event
Time: 10:00 – 12:10 CET

10:00 – 10:10 (10 min)
Introduction and Agenda
Ingo Mayr-Knoch, weTHINK.

10:10 – 10:40 (30 min)
CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism)
Experiences, Challenges and Perspectives from the Cement Industry
Manuel Mohr, VDZ – German Cement Works Association

10:40 – 11:10 (30 min)
Systems and Technologies for Alternative Fuels and Waste Recycling
Innovations, Experiences and Global Perspectives
Matthias Karl Egarter, CEO of Lindner Recyclingtech

11:10 – 12:10 (60 min)
Panel Discussion (Interactive Session)
How to Improve Waste Circularity in EU Countries and the Contribution of the Cement Industry

Key Topics:

• Legal perspectives and EU trends (RDF/SRF, alternative raw materials, End-of-Waste)
• CCUS technologies: status, challenges, and innovations
• Construction & Demolition Waste (CDW)
• Exchange with the European Commission on circular industry
• ISO 4349 Recycling Index promotion
• Reduction of bureaucracy in cross-border waste transport
• Best practices across industries

12:10 – 12:20 (10 min)
Wrap-Up, Next Steps & Outlook on Upcoming Events
Ingo Mayr-Knoch, weTHINK.

Abstracts: 
Matthias Karl Egarter, CEO of Lindner Recyclingtech

From Waste to Resource: State-of-the-Art Technology for RDF and SRF Production and Lindner’s Global Role in Closing the Loop

Coal is quietly losing its job to the contents of our garbage bins, and almost nobody is talking about it. While the climate debate fixates on hydrogen, batteries and grand declarations, the European cement industry has already replaced more than half of its fossil fuel with Refuse-Derived and Solid Recovered Fuels made from waste that used to be buried. Austria has pushed that figure above 80% – more than four times the global average of just 18%. The single largest deployable decarbonisation lever in heavy industry is already operating, at scale, on a continent near you.

In this keynote, Matthias Egarter, CEO of Lindner-Recyclingtech, takes the audience inside the engineering that makes it possible: primary and secondary shredding, NIR-based sorting, digital quality control and the integrated plant systems that turn yesterday’s residue into tomorrow’s industrial fuel. He maps the global outlook – Europe’s continued lead, the rapid build-up of capacity across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, and the convergence of energy recovery with material recycling and quantifies the ecological case in one number: up to four times less CO₂ per tonne, compared with landfill.

Drawing on close to 200 RDF and SRF plants and more than 2.000 shredder installations in nearly 100 countries, the talk closes on a single question: if Austria can do it today, what is stopping the rest of the world?

Manuel Mohr, VDZ – German Cement Works Association
CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism)
Experiences, Challenges and Perspectives from the Cement Industry
Abstract: Manuel Mohr provides an overview of the development of CO₂ pricing for industry in Europe and places it within a global context. He then focuses on the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), explaining the current status of its implementation — including CO₂ reporting & verification requirements for importers and manufacturers in third countries — as well as current challenges.