Waste 2014 Conference Presentations

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Day 1 - Keynote Addresses

• Making a difference - Kim McKay AO, Managing Director, Momentum2, Co-founder, Clean Up Australia & Clean Up the World
• Road to recovery: where to from here - Steve Beaman, Director Waste and Resource Recovery, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Victorian perspective: are we getting full value? - Stan Krpan, Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability Victoria
• Educating the community about waste – what is the evidence of success? - Grahame Collier, Director, T Issues Consultancy

Day 1 - Infrastructure Stream

• NSW $250 million waste infrastructure boost - Mark Jackson, Manager Waste and Recycling Infrastructure, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Roadmap for a regional approach to developing key infrastructure - Ewen Skinner and Dan Bonifant, Directors, Morrison Low
• Developing organics processing infrastructure: key considerations and processes - Greg Freeman, Managing Director and Jeff Green, Senior Waste Consultant, Impact Environmental Consulting
• Developing a business case for alternative waste treatment infrastructure for rural councils - Gemma Dawson, Associate, SLR Consulting Australia

Day 1 - Organics Stream

• Municipal food waste systems: lessons, costs and performance - Justin Lang, Program Manager, Local Government, Zero Waste SA
• Organics collection and processing in Victoria - David Cocks, Manager Waste & Resource Recovery Strategy, Sustainability Victoria
• Another piece in the resource recovery puzzle-recovery of food organics in multi-unit dwellings - Matshepo Molala, Waste and Resource Recovery Projects and Talebul Islam, Coordinator Strategic Waste, Randwick City Council
• Organics collection and processing – the experience one year on - Ken Wilson, Sustainable Service Coordinator, Clarence Valley Council

Day 1 - Education Stream

• International eco-schools in Australia!!! - Peter McLean, National Chief Executive Officer, Keep Australia Beautiful National Association
• Changing behaviour – a new approach for NSW - Steve Beaman, Director, Waste and Resource Recovery, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Recycle Right: a state wide approach to waste management messages - Simone Cunningham, Program Manager: Education and Engagement, Zero Waste SA
• Determining recyclability: a new Australian tool - Brad Gray, Head of Campaigns, Planet Ark and Brett Giddings, Manager, Member Services, Australian Packaging Covenant
• Waste minimisation in childcare centres - Anna Ricketts, Principal Consultant, EnviroCom
• Getting recycling right, where there’s no place like our place - Lia McDonald, Coordinator Strategic Programs, Cairns Regional Council, Water & Waste
• From waste to art to action! - Larissa Shashkof, Communications and Education Officer, MobileMuster
• Making recycling work in social housing: a success story - Guada Lado, Waste Education Officer and Matshepo Molala, Resource Recovery Projects Officer, Randwick City Council
• Creative collaboration to mainstream waste education - Julia Guo, Waste Education Officer, Parramatta City Council Natalie Kelman, Education Officer, Solid Waste and Recycling, Transpacific Industries Group

Day 1 - Recycling Stream

• Recycling and EfW: the combined effect on achieving xero waste - Ian Malouf, Group Managing Director, Dial A Dump Industries
• Degraves Street Recycling Facility - Rebecca Hughes, Program Coordinator, Engineering Services, City of Melbourne
• RecycleSmart: why quality matters - Giorgio Baracchi, CEO and Cofounder, RecycleSmart
• The recycling revolutions – environmental benefit, educational confusion - Brad Gray, Head of Campaigns, Planet Ark
• Halve waste: a model for local government recycling - Tiffany Key, Senior Consultant, MRA Consulting

Day 1 - Landfill Stream

• On the NOSE – a global approach to odour management - Robert Kelly, Director of Technical Assistance for the Wastewater & Environment Div, Suez Environment
• Improving the performance of small regional landfills - Danyelle Carter, Manager Regional Delivery and Elissa Bishop, Project Officer, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Decommissioned landfills – liability for environmental issues? - Ben Fuller, Special Counsel, Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers
• Managing risk in landfill operations - Robert Bailey, Consultant, Robert Bailey Consulting
• Leachate management options assessment - Leo Reid, Principal Waste Management

Day 2 - Keynote Addresses

• Voice of youth – sharing the waste journey - Janelle Booth, Principal Environmental Consultant – Waste, Hyder Consulting
• Raising the standard – professional and technical development in the UK - Chris Murphy, Deputy Chief Executive, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, UK
• Measuring the waste industry - Mark Lound, Director, Environmental Accounts, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Day 2 - Strategy & Policy Stream

• Opportunities for the waste sector under Direct Action - Elisa de Wit, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
• Going underground with City of Perth’s waste strategy - Janelle Booth, Principal Environmental Consultant – Waste, Hyder Consulting
• Tasmanian councils: going it alone on waste levies - Michelle Ogulin, Senior Waste Management Officer, Launceston City Council
• The missing link – developing end markets for the waste industry - Matt Genever, Principal Environmental Consultant and Emma Mountjoy, Environmental Consultant, Hyder Consulting
• Meaningful community engagement for waste strategy development - Rebecca Tempest, Program Leader, Sustainable Waste & Resource Management, Blue Mountains City Council

Day 2 - Problem & Hazardous Waste Stream

• Hazardous chemical waste and national security: helping keep Australia safe from terrorism - Mark Whitechurch, Assistant Director, Chemical Security Coordination Unit, Australian Attorney General’s Department
• Understanding hazardous waste in Australia - Geoff Latimer, Senior Manager, ENVIRON Australia
• Asbestos: what’s been happening over the last 12 months? - Amy Lovesey, Project Manager, Asbestos Policy, Local Government NSW
• Hey tosser! It’s a dirty look - Sharon Owens, Manager Litter Programs, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• The role of local government in clinical waste management - Dr Trevor Thornton, Lecturer in Hazardous Materials Management, Deakin University and Representative of the WMAA Biohazardous Waste Industry Div.

Day 2 - Energy from Waste Stream

• NSW Policy in place and what it means for you - Sarah Crossie, Head Waste Strategy, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Smaller decentralised energy from waste plants - the way forward! - Miles Mason, Business Development Manager, New Energy Corporation
• Mixed fuel resources — how bankable your waste? - Anne Prince, Director, A.Prince Consulting and Josh Gill, Analytical Chemist, Plant and Fuel Evaluation, HRL Technology
• Bio-methane – meeting the challenge of gas to grid - Peter Rossington, Principal Process Engineer, KMH Environmental 
• Australian industrial and municipal waste management customers - unmet needs and new directions - Ivan Fernandez , Industry Director, Australia & New Zealand, Frost & Sullivan

Day 2 - Workshops

• Key steps in the implementation of an EfW project in Australia - Facilitator: Geoff Gerard, Sales Manager (NSW Infrastructure), SITA Australia
• Everything you need to know about applying for Waste Less, Recycle More grants - Facilitators: Danyelle Carter, Manager Regional Delivery, and Mark Jackson, Manager Waste and Recycling Infrastructure, NSW Environment Protection Authority
• Social procurement trends in waste with the rise of social enterprise - Facilitators: John Weate, Consultant, Resource Recovery Australia, Chris Newman, Director, ArcBlue Consulting & Co-founder, Social Procurement Australasia and Matthew Allen, Secretary, Community Recycling Network of Australia
• Regional corner - Facilitator: Steven Campbell, Director of Planning and Environment, Parkes Shire Council and Netwaste Chair

Day 2 - Tenders & Contracts Stream

• St. George regional waste contract – a successful collaborative approach - Garry Dickens, Environmental Services Manager, Hurstville City Council, Fiona Stock, Waste and Sustainability Manager, Kogarah City Council and Colin Clissold, Manager Operations, Rockdale City Council
• Contract management for local government - Katherine Driscoll, Waste Management Consultant, Impact Environmental Consulting
• Kerbside waste and recycling contract review – case study - Andrew Quinn, Senior Environmental Consultant – Waste Management, GHD and Sasko Vasilevski, Waste and Environment Officer, Randwick City Council

Day 2 - E-Waste Stream

• The NTCRS and roll out of sites - Mike Ritchie, Director, MRA Consulting
• What drives success in e-waste product stewardship? - Carmel Dollisson, Chief Executive Officer, ANZRP
• Convenience is king - smarter approaches for recovering electronic and household problem wastes - Hal Dobbins, Zero Waste Coordinator, City of Sydney

Day 2 - Collection Stream

• Bulky waste collections - a challenge for councils - Kathy Woods, The Hills Shire Council
• The new normal – battery electric waste vehicles - Andrew Rushworth, Managing Director, Zero Emission Vehicles Limited
• Waste management - a journey in Snowy River Shire - Sean Crowe, Manager Waste Services and Margie Ferguson, Waste Education Officer, Snowy River Shire Council