Initiatives to promote an integrated approach to waste management in accordance with sustainable development principles are an international theme.  The Technical Committee has selected over 70 international papers to help UK waste managers, specifiers and advisers implement the Waste Strategies and follow Regulatory guidelines.

The Conference will last three days and will cover the following key themes:

• Waste management strategies
  
  
• Waste management legislation
  
  
• Involving the public in waste management
  
  
• Schemes to promote reuse and recycling
  
  
• Markets and end-uses for secondary materials
  
  
• Waste treatment and recycling options
  
  
• Regulation of emissions and evaluation of health impacts
  
  
• Hazardous waste management
  
  
• Waste to energy, composting and anaerobic digestion, gasification and pyrolysis
  
  
• Industrial waste treatment, emerging technologies
  
  
• Landfill design and engineering
  
  
• Landfill gas and leachate management