National Packaging Covenant - Are you signed up?

8.30am - 12.30pm (includes Morning Tea and Lunch)

How can you get the most out of the National Packaging Covenant?

In this workshop members of the WA Jurisdictional Projects Group and the National Projects Group will explore:

• What types projects should the NPC be funding?
  
• What types of packaging projects do you want to implement?
  
• What types of projects are appropriate to WA?
  
• What is a “national” project, and can one be run from WA?

Enlist Now in the National War on Waste.

Waste Educators Workshop: Confidence in Crisis or Behaving Badly?

8.00am - 12.30pm (includes Morning Tea and Lunch)

As we approach 2020, recent research indicates that only 23% of all waste in Western Australia is recycled. Is the challenge of changing behaviour in crisis? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What do we need to do?

This professionally facilitated forum will bring together those involved in waste education across government, business/industry and the community to examine the role education plays in changing behaviour and realising the vision of Zero Waste in Western Australia.

Following the State Government’s endorsement of the landfill levy increase, the forum will enable participants to hear first-hand what recycling initiatives the Waste Management Board is proposing in '06-'07, explore synergies and identify opportunities for integration through collaborative partnerships between State and Local Government, the WMAA, training providers, business/industry and the wider community. Not to be missed.

Mindarie Regional Council and JoJo Plastics Tour

8.30am - 12.30pm (includes Morning Tea and Lunch)

Mindarie Regional Council - Tour to 'The Park'
During the tour of the Mindarie Regional Council’s Waste Disposal and Recycling Centre at Tamala Park you’ll see how WA’s largest waste management authority handles and disposes of an average 1000 tonnes of waste each day at its state-of-the-art landfill. You’ll also visit the Recycling Centre, where thousands of customers a year find what they’re looking for at bargain prices; and you’ll see how waste oils from restaurants are processed and converted to biodiesel to fuel some vehicles at the facility.

JoJo Plastics
JoJo Plastics manufacture plastic bollards from post-industrial wastes sourced from the mining industry (piping and plastic scrap) and local governments (crates and mobile garbage bins). Their granulators can handle plastics with a wall thickness of up to 60mm.

At JoJo Plastics you will see how large plastic containers are granulated, washed, pelletised and remanufactured into plastic bollards. JoJo Plastics also offer a mobile granulating service.

Amcor and Waste Water Wise Tour

8.30am - 12.30pm (includes Morning Tea and Lunch)

Amcor Spearwood Mill Tour
The Amcor site is situated in Spearwood WA. The site consists of the Spearwood Paper Mill and Spearwood Box Plant. The Paper Mill produces 100% recycled packaging papers from over 70,000 tonnes p.a. of waste cardboard and paper and the Box Plant produces over 40 million square metres of corrugated boxes per annum. The site currently employs about 160 people and has been operating since 1966 and is the only operating paper mill in WA. Amcor Recycling is responsible for the sourcing of raw waste paper material for the Paper Mill. The tour will only visit the Paper Mill and will follow the process of the waste paper from the storage yard through the waste paper processing plant and, finally, the paper machine.
Please wear enclosed comfortable walking shoes.

Kwinana Water Reclamation Plant
The Kwinana Water Reclamation Plant (also referred to as the ‘KWERP’ from the phonetic form of its acronym) is a tertiary wastewater treatment plant utilising state-of-the-art membrane separation technologies to produce high quality industrial process water for reuse in the Kwinana Heavy Industrial Precinct.

Battle of the Bugs - Bacteria and Viruses are on the March!
A workshop exploring what disease impacts may mean for waste management in WA

1.30pm - 5.30pm (includes Lunch and Afternoon Tea)

Ever since Alexander Fleming developed the wonder drug penicillin we have relied heavily on drugs to combat bugs in our environment - and we have been quite successful at least in the 20th century. The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. Outbreaks of BSE and now the H5N1 avian influenza follow on the back of established outbreaks like HIV and threaten to change the balance of power in the battle against bugs and viruses. What might the next bug or virus target? What could we do about it?

During this ‘hothouse’ scenario planning session, Clem Sunter along with experts from the Health Department, Agriculture WA, industry, local government and community representatives will explore where the new boundaries lie in the 21st century and what this means for waste managers and the community at large. Whilst the session will avoid alarmist approaches it will show how ‘planning for extraordinary times’ can help to be better prepared and suggest realistic steps we can take right now.

Waste Data Strategy Workshop

1.30pm - 5.30pm (includes Lunch and Afternoon Tea)

Stakeholders from across the waste management sector will be invited to participate in this half-day workshop. We will look at ways of addressing the effective collection and useful dissemination of waste data in Western Australia. Areas of focus will include: consistent measurement techniques, effective reporting, identification of the types of data that are needed and improving communication between State Government and other members of the waste and recycling sector in WA.

SIMS E-Recycling (Metal and E-Waste) and Jandakot Recycling Tour

1.30pm - 5.30pm (includes Lunch and Afternoon Tea)

SIMS E-Recycling
This site will show you what happens to electronics such as computers and TVs when they arrive at the recycling facility. The site operates a dismantling, sorting and material segregation facility for all electronic components. The site is ISO14001 certified and will show and explain how the Sims Group business diversification can handle the various materials extracted from unwanted electronic products. Follow the path of the computer chassis (steel) through the complete cycle where it is turned into ferrous and non-ferrous product.

Sims Metal
This site will show you what happens to those steel computer chassis and how a car is turned into cold ferrous feed. This site operates a shredding and processing facility for both ferrous and non-ferrous materials for domestic and export use.

Jandakot Recycling Tour
Jandakot Recycling is upgrading the facility and will be
re-opening early July. This is a chance for delegates to view at first-hand the operations of a modern construction and demolition waste recycling facility. Veolia Environmental Services welcome the opportunity to explain the operation and issues associated with this type of recycling.

Fruit of the vineSMRC and Jane Brook Winery

1.30pm - 5.30pm (includes Lunch and Afternoon Tea)

The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s municipal waste composting plant at Canning Vale has been producing compost for some two years now and that compost product has been used in comprehensive on-farm testing for a similar period. This tour will start at the SMRC’s education centre for a briefing on the SMRC’s operations and then proceed in small groups on a guided tour through the facility. Delegates will follow the progress of MSW from receival through to the stabilised compost product that is achieved at the end of the process. From there delegates will visit the Jane Brook Winery where they will have the opportunity to see and taste the benefits that MSW derived compost has delivered to this enterprise.