The Organising Committee thanks the following organisations for their support of the Watch your WASTE Line Conference and Exhibition.

www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au

Zero Waste SA is helping South Australia stay at the forefront of recycling and resource management in Australia. Zero Waste SA is recognised for its leadership in recycling, research, market development, industry assistance and the ban on check-out style plastic bags. Through collaboration, education, advocacy and financial incentives, Zero Waste SA is encouraging new practices that promote reuse, recycling and waste avoidance – and help South Australians meet South Australia’s Strategic Plan target to ‘reduce waste to landfill by 25% by 2014’. Having reduced waste to landfill in South Australia by 14.4% since 2002-03, Zero Waste SA continues to stimulate investment in infrastructure, foster collaboration and drive industry resource efficiency.  

Over the past 25 years MASTEC Australia Pty Ltd has not only grown to become one of the country’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of MGB’s (Wheelie bins) and 4-wheel bins, it is also leading the way in bin assembly and distribution services for councils and collection contractors throughout Australia.

www.veoliaes.com.au

Veolia Environmental Services is one of the world's biggest and most successful waste management and environmental services companies, with operations in all Australian States.  In South Australia, Veolia provides an extensive range of solid and liquid waste services, including recycling services, confidential document and records destruction, landfill and liquid treatment plant, high temperature incinerator for medical and quarantine wastes and a full range of industrial cleaning applications.  Veolia Environmental Services is proud to be partnered with IWS.

Proudly South Australian, Jeffries are a fourth generation family business focused on receiving, processing and marketing recyclable organic resources for maximum sustainable return. Jeffries are recognised as one of the leading, most innovative organics recyclers in Australia; they have a strong reputation for producing a variety of popular landscape and horticultural products from recycled organic materials.

www.visy.com.au

Visy Recycling is the largest recycler in Australia. Visy’s business model is based on the sustainable reuse of materials which would otherwise be discarded. The primary driver for Visy Recycling’s materials processing business is the ongoing need for fibre for Visy’s cardboard production and for other materials for Visy’s plastic, liquid paperboard, aluminium and steel food and beverage packaging businesses.

The WMAA SA Working Group ‘Landfill SA’ is a part of the WMAA National Landfill Division. The group is involved in promoting best practice in landfill management and design, informing Government policy development and review, and improving the public profile and perception of landfills in SA. Landfill SA’s activities will not be slowing down any time soon because in 2011 SA will host the National Landfill and Transfer Stations Conference.   

Transpacific is Australia and New Zealand’s largest industrial services, waste management and recycling company. Our philosophy is that all waste is a resource and our aim is to incorporate recovery, recycling and reuse throughout our operations. We are strongly committed to the safe and responsible management of waste, regulatory compliance, and the protection and enhancement of the environment.

Integrated Waste Services is a South Australian company with over forty five years experience in the waste industry. IWS is a ‘One Stop Shop’ and total waste management solution with an innovative approach which ensures we not only effectively meet client requirements but are also managing waste for the environment.

The Publishers National Environment Bureau, the newspaper and magazine publishing industry body established voluntarily in 1991:

• has led to Australia being a world leader in recycling of old newsprint and magazines;
• focuses on extended producer responsibility, diversion of waste from landfill, industry’s impact on climate change;
• spends $100,000 annually supplying education materials to schools on the importance of newspaper and magazine recycling and positive environmental impacts on use of recycled fibre;
• sponsors initiatives that raise awareness of the environmental benefits of paper recycling.

Golder Associates provides specialist ground engineering and environmental services across the globe. Employee owned since formation in 1960, Golder has experienced over five decades of sustained growth. Golder now employs over 7000 people and operates from more than 160 offices throughout Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

Liebherr-Australia import and distribute earthmoving equipment throughout the Australia, providing sales and product support for track and wheeled hydraulic excavators, articulated dump trucks, wheel loaders, material handlers, mobile cranes, crawler loaders and dozers. From our purpose built 7,400 square metre production facilities in Adelaide we manufacture mining buckets and attachments.

With over 35 years of experience, JCB Construction Equipment Australia is a respected distributor of construction and agricultural equipment in Australia.  

Our range of JCB equipment renowned for superior performance and productivity is supported 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our goal is to help you achieve yours.

The BiobiN® is an on-site in-vessel composting system, developed by Adelaide company Peats Soil & Garden Supplies, a leading recycler of Green Organics in South Australia.  The BiobiN® development was in response to the growing need to recycle the large amounts of putrescible organic wastes (food waste, animal mortality) being diverted to landfill. The system provides a cost-effective, bio-secure and economically viable sustainable solution to landfill disposal for organic wastes generated from a variety of facilities and is currently operating throughout Australia and overseas in the USA, Europe & Asia.

LMS Generation is an independent renewable electricity generator. In 1982 the company principals pioneered the collection and conversion of landfill gas to energy in Australia. Having invested extensive resources in the on-going development of intellectual property for landfill gas management and power generation, LMS technologies are now utilised throughout the world. The carbon offset credits that LMS Generation is providing to the Conference are certified by the Department of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency’s Greenhouse Friendly program.

WME Media is Australia’s leading environment business publisher, serving those responsible for environmental compliance, performance and risk in their organisations. Publications include: the monthly WME – Environment Business magazine, the leading forum for opinion and analysis for 21 years; Inside Waste magazine, also the official publication of the WMAA; and the on-line WME Environmental Management News.