Mr.
Ignasi Mateo Rodríguez
Project manager

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MedWaves, the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for SCP (former SCP/RAC)

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Biography

Project manager at MedWaves (UNEP-MAP) and at the Catalan Waste Agency (ARC)
Organic Chemist with an Environmental Management Master. For more than 20 years he has worked in issues related to waste management, Extended Producer responsibility (EPR) schemes, by-products management and implementing Circular Economy policies in the Catalan Waste Agency (a public agency of the Catalan Government). For the last 10 years he was involved in different European projects implementing pilots to prevent and mitigate Marine Litter around the Mediterranean Basin and defining measures to tackle marine litter and plastic pollution in MedWaves, a UNEP-MAP regional center based in Barcelona. Also participating in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.