Day 1: Thursday 2nd September
8.00am
Registration, Tea and Coffee
8.30am
Welcome & Housekeeping
8.45am
Official Opening
9.00am
Keynote Presentation: Industrial Symbiosis and the UK: The impact of the first 5 years of a nationally facilitated programme
Gary Foster, Regional Director, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (UK) & Managing Consultant, Scott Wilson Ltd
9.30am
Regional Resource Synergy Opportunities: Australia and Russia, a Comparison
Artem Golev, Sustainable Minerals Institute
10.00am
Resource recovery & recycling from hazardous waste
Dustan Hansen, Geocycle
10.30am
Recycling rubber tyres in EAF steelmaking
Paul O'Kane, OneSteel
11.00am
Morning Tea
11.30am
Keynote Presentation: Industrial Symbiosis at Kalundborg: An early example of Industrial Ecology
Jorgen Christensen, J C Consult (Denmark)
12.00pm
Working Together – a joint solution for resource recovery
Bernard Carlon, NSW Dept. of Environment, Climate Change & Water
12.30pm
The Use of Glass in Pavement Construction: A sparkling idea!
Chris Jeffreys, Packaging Stewardship Forum
1.00pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Reduction of iron oxide in composite pellets containing waste plastics
Prof Veena Sahajwalla, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology, UNSW
2.30pm
Port Melbourne Industrial Ecology - A water industry perspective
Vanessa Lenihan, South East Water Limited
3.00pm
Keynote Presentation: Challenges for industrial waste management in Japan
Prof Hiroki Hashizume, Tama University (Japan)
3.30pm
Afternoon Tea
4.00pm
Recycling and re-use of hazardous waste
Jason Cran, Dolomatrix Australia
4.30pm
Challenges of reusing waste products
Susan Lyell, Transpacific Industries Group with Paul Vujic, Transpacific Industries Group and Dominic Flanagan, LVRA
5.00pm
Closing the loop in commercial applications
Susan Lyell, Transpacific Industries Group with David Clark, EarthPower and Kyle Bender, Transpacific Hydrocarbons
5.30pm
Close Day 1
7.00pm
Conference Dinner - Australian Maritime Museum
Day 2: Friday 3rd September
8.00am
Tea and Coffee
8.30am
Australian Council of Recycling Launch - The role and future of the reformed national peak industry body for recycling
Rod Welford, ACOR
9.00am
Australian Examples of Recovery and Utilisation of Post-Industrial Wood
Stephen Mitchell, Australia Timber Product Stewardship Group
9.30am
Case Study of the first multi party / stakeholder major industrial ecology project in NSW - Experience to date
Simon Bruce, Weston Matrix
10.00am
Waste to energy applications for co-generation
Peter Dyson, Moltoni Energy
10.30am
Morning Tea
11.00am
E-Waste treatment - Local and international perspectives
Alvin Piadasa, TES – AMM and Sam Millar, PGM Refiners
11.30am
Utilising de-inking waste residues for manufacturing construction products
Dr Shiqin Yan, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering
12.00pm
Tyre Recycling in Australia, now & the future
John Crosby, Reclaim Industries
12.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm
Recycling a dangerous good
Ben Lim, Orica Australia
2.00pm
A life cycle assessment of remanufactured refrigeration versus original equipment air conditioning compressors
Prof Michele Rosano, Curtin University
2.30pm
The future of the AIEN
Colin Barker, Advitech
3.00pm
Afternoon Tea
3.30pm
Panel Session
Faciliated by: Garbis Simonian, Weston Aluminium
Panellists:
- Colin Barker, Advitech
- Prof Michele Rosano, Curtin University
- Prof Veena Sahajwalla, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology, UNSW
- Dusten Hansen, Geocycle
5.00pm
Conference Close

Please note: the program is a Preliminary Program and is subject to change. The program will be updated as any changes occur.