Hakan Rylander

CEO of the SYSAV Company Group, South Scania Waste Company, Sweden

Since 1972 Hakan has worked within the field of waste mangement, dealing with all types of issues, especially within recycling, waste treatment and landfilling. Operating different kinds of waste treatment, including recycling centres, waste-to-energy at two big plants in Sweden, biological treatment and landfilling and the safe handling of hazardous waste.

SYSAV is a regional company, owned by 14 municipalities, with a population of 650 000 inhabitants.

Hakan Rylander is very active on a national Swedish level as well as on an international level and has since 1975 given a large number of presentations on waste management, especially on Waste-to-Energy during later years, in Sweden as well as around the world. He is actively promoting waste-to-energy in articles and presentations, often using Sweden and the Sysav-case as a good example, with a concept of integrated waste management in order to maximize the recovery of material and energy and to minimize the landfilling.