Provisional Program

7.00 am

Need a little authority in your life? Meet the Waste Authority Breakfast

8.30 am

Registration

8.30 am

Strategic Waste Management Plan Workshop:
Have plan, will travel

Construction and Demolition Waste Tour

Waste Management Association of Australia
– Landfill Working Group
Landfill Tour and Workshop

Concludes at 3.00 pm

Followed by the Landfill Levy Discussion Forums (3.30 - 5.30 pm)

12.30 pm

Lunch amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

1.30 pm

Planning in an Uncertain Climate?
State Government, Climate Change and Planning Policy

5.30 pm -6.30 pm

SUNDOWNER amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

8.30 am

Registration

8.30 am

Brockway DiCOM® Alternative Waste Treatment Facility Tour 1

Snapshots to Integrating Sustainability Workshop

Resource Recovery Tour SMRC Canning Vale

Wangara Materials Recovery Facility & Mindarie Regional Council Tour

Luncheon sponsored by Mindarie Regional Council

Bins Workshop One Bin: Two Bins: Three Bins: More? Best Practice Kerbside Performance

12.30 pm

SAUSAGE SIZZLE LUNCh amongst the External Trade Exhibition

1.30 pm

Brockway DiCOM® Alternative Waste Treatment Facility Tour 2

Fruit of the Vine, Food of the Gods Tour

National Packaging Covenant Workshop

Outdoor Exhibition

5.30 pm –7.30 pm

WELCOME RECEPTION amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

8.00 am

Registration

8.30 am

Housekeeping

8.35 am

Official Opening by the Hon David Templeman MLA, Minister for the Environment; Climate Change; Peel

9.00 am

Keynote address: Mike Munger, Duke University, USA
Think Globally, Act Irrationally

9.45 am

Keynote address: Helen Spiegelman, President, Product Policy Institute, Canada
Extended Producer Responsibility

10.30 am

Morning Tea amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

11.00 am

Mike Goodyer
AgSafe Limited
Leading the way in Extended Producer Responsibility – A review of the DrumMuster and Chem Clear Programs?

Jim Baird
Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Delivering on Recycling and Carbon Reduction – Municipality Case Studies

Andrew Quinn
GHD
The Relationship Between Household Waste Performance and Socio-Demographic Characteristics

Simeon Kendall
Mindarie Regional Council
Waste Truck Effluent Treatment:
It’s like watching grass grow!

11.30 am

Rebecca Smith
Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council
Emerging Priorities for EPR

Paul Theodorou
Mandalay Technologies
Significance of Data Capture and Electronic Auditability on the Carbon Economy

Keynote Speaker Mike Munger
Duke University, USA
Externalities, Carbon Offsets, Subsidies, and Other Mythological Creatures

Leo Reid
URS Australia Pty Ltd
Alternative Rehabilitation Approach for Small Rural Landfills

12.00 pm

Keynote Speaker
Helen Speigelman
Product Policy Institute, Canada
Paper title to be confirmed

Tim Youé
Southern Metropolitan Regional Council
Carbon Trading for Waste in the Future?

Vanessa Dow
Department of Environment and Conservation
The Waste Wise Schools Program: How it works in metropolitan and regional WA

Nanette Schapell
Department of Environment and Conservation
Licensing and Regulation
in the Waste Area

12.30 pm

LUNCH amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

1.30 pm

Keynote Discussion Group

2.00 pm

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council
Mindarie Regional Council
Rivers Regional Council
Southern Metropolitan Regional Council
Western Metropolitan Regional Council

Graeme Raine
Department of Environment
and Conservation
Illegal Dumping

Peter Tapsell
Department of Environment
and Conservation
Construction and Demolitiion Waste in WA – Where are we now?

Keynote Speaker Jeff Seadon
Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
From the Wings to Centre Stage – The Changing Paradigm

2.30 pm

Update on the progress of the Regional Councils in the Perth metropolitan area in their progress towards Alternative Waste Treatment (AWT)

Stephen Bateman
District Council of Mallala,
South Australia
Illegal Dumping – Have You Been Caught?

Adrian Lester
C&D Recycling
Recycled Concrete Road Base Quality Investigation

John Ottaway
Department of Environment and Conservation
WARR Act

3.00 pm

AWT Round Up continues

Jonathan Hough
DKSH Australia Pty Ltd
Waste Timber – How to process it and what to do with it

Colin Leek
City of Canning
Used or Recycled Crushed Demolition Material as a Sub-base and Base

Simon Clay
Sustainability Victoria
Progress on towards Zero Waste: Great Recovery, Shame about the Reduction

3.30 pm

AFTERNOON TEA amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

4.00 pm

Janice Redmond
Edith Cowan University
A Case Study of Waste and Recycling by Small Business

Tim Black
Sietronics Pty Ltd
Reclaiming Contaminated Land using a Hand-held X-Ray Fluorescence XRF Instrument

Cr Ron Ashplant
City of Geraldton–Greenough
Cr Clive Robartson
City of Melville
Cr Michael Aspinall
Shire of Gingin
China Summit Review

4.15 pm

Elizabeth Re
Office of the Custodial Inspector
Is There a Safe Disposal of Needles and Syringes?

Fred Hoetmer
Sietronics Pty Ltd
Positive Identification of Scrap Metal for Recycling, Purchasing and Selling

4.30 pm

TBC

John King
Cardno
C&D Recycling – Economics
& Landfill Levies

Presenter to be confirmed
WSN Environmental Solutions
Waste, its a climate change issue (the MACROCK facility)

5.00 pm

Overview of Challenges Session on Friday: Request for Delegates to complete their input by 9.00 am FridayWSN Environmental Solutions

5.30 pm – 7.30 pm

POOLSIDE TROPICAL COCKTAIL FUNCTION at the Outdoor Resort PoolWaste, its a climate change issue (the MACROCK facility)

8.00 am

Registration

8.25 am

Housekeeping

8.30 am

Keynote address: Jeff Seadon
Manager, Sustainable Business Group, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
It’s Time to Tango!

9.15 am

Keynote address: Enzo Favoino
Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, Italy
Optimising European (EU) strategies for the management of organic waste

10.00 am

Presentation of the Waste Management Association of Australia John Guice Award

10.10 am

Morning Tea amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

10.30 am

Mike Ritchie
SITA Environmental Solutions
Waste in the Emissions Trading Scheme – Implications

Keynote Speaker Enzo Favoino
Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, Italy
Importance of source separated organics collection – the European perspective (show why and build on survey you did for the EU Commission and establishment of basic definition of quality criteria

Rick Wakelin
PGM Refiners
Electronic Waste

Barry Carbon
Chairman,
Waste Management Authority WA
Waste Management in Western Australia

11.00 am

Bob Paulin
Department of Agriculture and Food
Optimising the Potential Value of our Organic Wastes

Eric Paulsen
DKSH Australia
Automatic Sorting of Recyclable Materials is NIR Technology

Anne Prince
Australian Council of Recyclers
The True Value of Recycling to Australia

11.30 am

Helen Kelly
Department of Environment
and Conservation
Market Development Projects for the Recycled Organic Sector

Scott Talbot
Earthcare Consulting
Smart Builders Program: Getting it Sorted – A Housing Development Approach to Waste Management

Justin Lang
Zero Waste South Australia
The Long Haul:
ZWSA’s Regional Implementation Program

12.00 pm

LUNCH amongst the Internal Trade Exhibition

1.00 pm

Keynote Discussion Group

1.30 pm pm

Soapbox Session

2.15 pm

Challenges / Way Forward / Resolution of the Conference Session

3.15 pm

Conference Draws and Close

7.00 pm

CONFERENCE PRE-DINNER DRINKS

7.30 pm

CONFERENCE DINNER