13 July 2010 – Penton Media’s 2010 Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS), an international forum for the presentation of peer-reviewed applied and fundamental research and case studies on waste management, announces the technical program for the event 3-6 October 2010 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa. The GWMS will feature 105 educational oral and poster presentations.
Conference organizers have now announced the keynote speaker.
Monday, 4 October 2010, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Thomas H. Christensen, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Christensen will provide an overview of waste management in Europe based on a recent paper entitled: European Waste Management in a Global Warming Perspective.
Waste management in Europe has for decades been governed by the waste hierarchy, but statistics show that the 27 different member states represent a wide range of approaches. Many countries still rely strongly on landfilling, while other countries have reduced landfilling of MSW to less than 5%. With this knowledge, a generic study was performed using a modeling approach that compared 40 different waste management systems as they could appear in Europe in the future. The results showed that the most rational waste management scenarios can lead to substantial savings in CO2-emissions per tonne of municipal waste. The generic scenarios provide insight into which factors are important, but savings provided by a specific system must always be assessed paying attention to local waste composition and waste management technologies.
Read more about the keynote address.
ABOUT GWMS 2010
The Global Waste Management Symposium brings together a broad coalition of government agencies, waste services companies, consultants, vendors/suppliers, researchers and leading trade organizations and scientific foundations from the U.S. and abroad. Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and problem solve with colleagues and GWMS sponsors on topics that are critical to the community of designers, facility owners and operators, policymakers and researchers in the global waste community.
Supported by Penton Media’s Waste Age Magazine, GWMS also enjoys media support from the following Media Partners to date: Construction & Demolition Recycling, Pollution Equipment News and Geosynthetica.net. Additional support is provided by the following Strategic Partners to date: the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF), the Environmental Industry Associations (EIA, through NSWMA and WASTEC), the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) and Methane to Markets (M2M), the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the Ontario Waste Management Association.
Find out more about the Global Waste Management Symposium at www.wastesymposium.com.
About Penton Media, Inc.
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CONTACT
Florence Torres
Conference Director, Global Waste Management Symposium
+1 203 358 4385
Email: Florence.Torres@penton.com
Website: www.wastesymposium.com
