Recycling and Waste Management Conference

Date: 16 September 2008

Location: Birmingham

Web Site: http://www.rwmconference.co.uk


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Email: conferences@emap.com

Telephone: 0845 056 2443

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RWM Conferenceis designed to help you meet your targets to reduce waste, re-use food waste and recycle waste into energy.

The RWM Conference brings together over 40 of the industry's leading experts to discuss sustainable waste solutions for your local authority.

The Conference incorporates practical advice on solutions and legislation, with lively panel debates addressing current concerns such as: 

  • Minimising construction waste
  • Reducing carbon in the recycling process
  • Generating value from food waste
  • Integrating energy from waste technologies

Speakers include:

  • Lee Marshall, Chair, Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee
  • Roy Hathaway, Head of Waste Regulation and Business, Defra
  • Liz Parkes, Head of Waste, Environment Agency
  • Peter Jones OBE, former Director, Biffa
  • Ray Parmenter, Legislation Manager, Veolia
  • Jonathan Davies, Development Director, Enviros
  • Edward Cowley, Environmental Action Co-ordinator RECAP, Cambridgeshire County Council

Why attend?

  • Understand current industry and Government definitions of zero carbon waste
  • Update your corporate waste and recycling strategy in accordance with UK legislation
  • Develop a cost-effective waste solution in line with the Waste Framework Directive in Brussels
  • Focus on issues surrounding food waste collections and composting
  • Debate the pros and cons of MBT for mixed municipal waste
  • Examine the integration of new technologies into your re-use strategy

Overcome common pitfalls on the road to financing and planning energy from waste schemes