On behalf of the South Australian Branch of the Waste Management Association of Australia and the 2010 Conference Organising Committee, I am delighted to extend this invitation to all resource recovery and climate change stakeholders to join us for the third biennial WMAA SA Branch Conference, Expo & Technical Tours: Watch Your WASTE Line to be held from 27th to 29th October 2010 at the Hilton Adelaide.

Following very successful conferences in 2004, 2006, and 2008 the 2010 event will once again provide a forum to develop and promote the most up-to-date environmentally sound resource recovery and waste management practices. This year’s conference aims to share both global and local information and ideas and will consider ways forward for the future development of the waste management industry in South Australia.

Through the conference theme, ‘Watch Your WASTE Line’, the Organising Committee aims to deliver a dynamic range of presenters able to engage delegates at a time when government direction and regulation — combined with social dynamics — demand the waste industry to demonstrate an ability to meet new and much more urgent challenges. The headline topic for the conference will be food organics recovery with a comprehensive look at waste in all areas of society’s food chain. This will include the life cycle of food, social behaviours, identified education gaps, collection and processing methodologies just to name a few. The conference will also present the latest information on a broad range of traditional waste industry topics such as technological improvements, state and local government policies and objectives, commercial waste sector opportunities and the influence of carbon in waste management.

The conference also includes a day of technical tours which will enable delegates to visit South Australia’s leading waste management processing facilities as well as a look at waste generator sites focusing on food organics opportunities.

Paul Bowden
Conference Organising Committee Chair