Global Waste Management Symposium Announces Event Schedule

The Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS) will be Sept. 7-10, 2008, at the Copper Mountain Conference Center in Colorado. The GWMS will serve as a forum for the presentation of both applied and fundamental research and case studies on waste management and its effects on climate change.

Participants will include designers, facility owners and operators, policy makers, researchers, government agencies, waste service companies, consultants, vendors, members of trade organizations and scientific foundations. More than 400 people have already registered for the event, according to Rita Ugianskis-Fishman, GWMS show director.

The event will include both oral and poster presentations as well as social events to provide opportunities for interaction and discussion. The GWMS will officially kick off Monday, Sept. 8, with two keynote presenters: Dr. Michael J. Walsh, executive vice president, Chicago Climate Exchange and Hakan Rylander, CEO, SYSAV Co. Group, South Scania Waste Co., Sweden. Walsh’s presentation will be on the “Potential for National Carbon Emissions Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” and Rylander will be speaking on “Maximum Recycling of Material and Energy—Minimum of Landfilling: Perspectives from Europe.”

Oral presentations will include the following topics: Producer Responsibility; Waste Diversion, or Zero Waste?; Solid Waste Management Planning and Policy; Biological Treatment of Solid Waste; Carbon Finance; Models of Landfill Processes; Sustainable Waste Management and Climate Change. In addition to the oral presentations, 50 poster presentations will be featured at the Global Waste Management Symposium.

A complete schedule and additional information, including registration information, is available at www.wastesymposium.com.