The Irish Waste Management Association and the Chartered Institution of Waste Management is set to host the Irish Waste Management Conference live and in person on Thursday 10 March at Dublin’s Croke Park Conference Centre.
‘The Role of the Circular Economy in Tackling Climate Change’ is the theme of the conference, and acording to the organisers, “300 delegates from the public and private sectors have now booked tickets for the event, making it the largest waste management conference ever to take place in Ireland”.
Conference Agenda:
- Developing Ireland’s Waste Policy in a Circular Economy.
- National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy and the Role of Local Authority Waste Programme Co-ordinator.
- Legal updates on all that has happened in the waste area, both Irish and European, over the last two years.
- Ireland’s Circular Economy: Role of Data, Regulation, Innovation, Demonstration and Implementation.
- Waste to Energy and the Circular Economy.
- Deposit and Refund Schemes – The Future is Digital.
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place – The Circular Economy in Ireland from a Waste Management perspective.
- The E-waste Challenge: A Circular Economy Opportunity.
- The Transition to Net Zero and the need for new skills and competences in the Resources & Waste Sector.
- Emerging Trends in Waste Crime.
- Circular Economy in the Built Environment.
Keynote Speakers:
- Michael E. Van Brunt, P.E., Vice President, Environmental and Sustainability, Covanta, USA.
- Lee Marshall, Director of Policy and External Affairs, CIWM, UK.
- Philip Nugent, Assistant Secretary, leading Natural Resources and Waste Policy function at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.
- Seán Scott, Local Authority Waste Programme Co-ordinator.
- Sharon Finnegan, Director of the Office of Environmental Sustainability, EPA.
- Leo Donovan, CEO, WEEE Ireland.
- Neill Ryan, CEO, Greyhound Recycling.
- Alison Fanagan, Co-Head of Environmental & Planning, A&L Goodbody.
- Seamus Clancy, CEO, Repak.
- Conor Walsh, Secretary, Irish Waste Management Association.
- David Tobin, Sustainability and Circular Economy Director, Beauparc.
- Dr Sarah Miller, CEO, Rediscovery Centre, the National Centre for the Circular Economy.
- Janet Lynch, Circular Economy & Sustainability Consultant, Arup.
