The conference provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information and works on the current situation of waste management amongst professionals, researchers, government departments and local authorities. Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste. Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This requires further investigation into disposal methods and recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills, industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories. This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education. Unfortunately, many of the policies adopted in the past were aimed at short term solutions without due regard to the long term implications on health and the environment, leading in many cases to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action.

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

• Environmental impact
• Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery (4Rs)
• The circular economy
• Secondary raw materials (SRM)
• Energy from waste
• Industrial waste management
• Hazardous waste
• Agricultural waste
• Wastewater
• eWaste
• Landfill design and management
• Waste monitoring
• Thermal treatment
• Environmental remediation
• Municipal waste management
• Behavioural issues
• Health care waste
• Decommissioning
• Radioactive waste management
• Waste treatment technologies and innovation
• Emerging issues in waste management
• Organic waste management
• Water microbiology & bio-hydrometallurgy
• Case studies