This flexible program offers you the opportunity to pick and mix from our keynote sessions, concurrent sessions, workshops and tours. Choose from a session below to view the details.

Thursday Afternoon Activities

Onsite
Thursday 13 September 2007
1.30 Pm – 5.00 pm

Regional Roundup: Alternative Lifestyles

1.30pm–3.00pm

All of the Regional Councils in the Perth metropolitan area are at various stages in their interaction with Alternative Waste Treatment (AWT). This session will include short presentations from all of the Regional Councils highlighting one area of their progress toward AWT. From the initial scoping, community engagement, through tendering, site selection, testing the technology and finally operating the facility.

Testing the Water (or In the beginning…)

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council

Careful engagement and beginning the process.

Love me Tender

Mindarie Regional Council

How, why and what makes the financial aspects of AWT a challenge.

In whose backyard?

South East Metropolitan Regional Council

Site selection processes, maps, community engagement and council interaction.

Fun size

Western Metropolitan Regional Council

What technology and the use of a small scale project to test the technology.

Been there, built that

Southern Metropolitan Regional Council

Lessons learned and advantages gained from AWT in the Region.

Panel Discussion: Contaminated sites: Dig AND DUMP?

3.30pm–5.00pm

With the commencement of the Contaminated Sites Act 2003 on 1st December 2006, there are requirements for reporting known or suspected contaminated sites to the Department of Environment and Conservation, and confirmed contaminated sites are listed on a publicly available database.

The period of grace for reporting sites already known or suspected of being contaminated expired on 31 May 2007. The Department now knows where the majority of problem sites are and it is time to face the question — should you just dig and dump?

This workshop will examine when remediation is needed (and when it is not!), various options for remediating contaminated sites, some of the challenges faced by those with contaminated sites and ways forward.

Offsite
Thursday 13 September 2007
1.30 Pm – 5.00 pm

Fruit of the Vine & Food of the Gods Tour

An afternoon of sheer indulgence is offered to discerning delegates. A wine tasting experience at the renowned Jane Brook Estate winery in the Swan Valley complete with nibblies will be followed by a stop at the Chocolate Factory where delegates can indulge their pleasure of chocolate in all its forms. Numerous samples are available and your purchases only limited by the capacity of your credit card. This is the ‘must-do’ tour.

Tour of “The Park”

with afternoon tea sponsored by Mindarie Regional Council

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 processing of waste oils from restaurants are converted to biodiesel to fuel some vehicles at the facility.

The new Stage 2 Phase 2 is now accepting waste and, during the tour, you’ll see major changes in the landscape.

EMRC: Hazelmere Timber Recycling Centre

The Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council has recently developed the Hazelmere Timber Recycling Centre to accept industrial timber waste, and process it into woodchip for use as a raw material to several end markets, thereby diverting a valued resource from landfill and presenting a more sustainable use for industrial timber waste. The project is expected to gradually develop with respect to its throughput, commencing mid-2007. Initial estimates indicate about 15,000 tonnes of timber waste may be received in the first year; reaching about 50,000 tonnes within three years.

The Laminex Group will utilise processed untreated timber waste for the manufacture of particle board and will accept as much as 15,000 tonnes of processed industrial timber waste in the first year of operations.

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