About 'Beyond Recycling 2006'
Recent years have seen progress for recycling of municipal waste, but has this been at the expense of waste reduction and re-use? Have the higher levels of the waste management hierarchy been ignored in the rush to meet recycling targets? With the environmental costs of recycling and the high levels of consumption that recycling inadvertently justifies, is prevention better than cure? Reaching ever higher recycling targets will also cost ever more, so the time is right to take a fresh look at prevention.
This conference will bring together experts, practitioners and policy makers to develop the case for domestic and municipal waste prevention. It will explore how it can be promoted, measured and implemented. What are the priorities for government locally and nationally? What roles can the community and private sector play? The day is divided into two parts - first a look at waste prevention research and how it is informing national and local policy, plans and practice. In the afternoon a variety of innovative projects from around the UK will be showcased, alongside a choice of facilitated workshop sessions. There will also be plenty of opportunity for debate and discussion.
Beyond Recycling 2006 will appeal to local authority officers and managers, community enterprises, social entrepreneurs, government agencies and private sector contractors, and all those with an interest in developing genuinely sustainable resource management. It will offer a combination of updates on latest research, waste strategies, policies and plans, innovative projects and pointers to successfully making the case for waste prevention.
With moves to establish municipal waste reduction and reuse targets and programmes, Beyond Recycling 2006 is a very timely event. Learn the latest thinking, hear from those who are making policy, and those putting policy into practice. Leave inspired, with useful ideas and practical suggestions, and as a part of the growing network that is going Beyond Recycling.