Conference Day Two
27 June 2019
Go to Pre-conference indepth-learning sessions
08:30 Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 Opening remarks from the Chair
Yasmin Grigaliunas, CEO & Co-Founder, The World's Biggest Garage Sale
WASTE MANAGEMENT PART 1 – MAKE IT HAPPEN
09:00 Keynote case study: Qantas Group’s waste reduction program, a major environmental push
- How Qantas is targeting 75% cut in waste to landfill
- Discovering the different strategies to reduce waste on board
- Identifying the tools needed to reuse, recycle and compost as much as possible
- Monitoring the waste reduction program and overcoming challenges
Helen Pinch, Sustainability Manager, Sustainability and Industry Affairs, Government, Industry, International and Sustainability, Qantas Airways
09:30 Creating sustainable precincts solution in urban development
- Understanding City of Sydney’s current waste management strategy
- Service changes to improve resource recovery from urban development
- Case study – Exploring precinct based solutions including Central Park food waste collection feasibility study
Gemma Dawson, Manager Waste Strategy, City of Sydney
10:00 Managing waste across the manufacturing, production and distribution supply chain
- Reducing waste in supply chain and manufacturing
- Implementing a long-term successful waste management strategy into everyday business practices
- Getting cross department employees genuinely engaged with the waste management strategy
- Discovering innovative thinking and technology to support waste management
Kate Ringvall, Country Manager Sustainability Retail, Ikea
10:30 Morning break
WASTE MANAGEMENT PART 2 - MAKE IT WORK
11:00 Case study: Diverting up to 84% of waste from landfill in a major tourist attraction
- How Taronga is targeting a 90% diversion from landfill by 2020
- Implementing innovative waste management and resource recovery initiatives to meet complex requirements
- Changing business as usual by collaborating with partners and suppliers
- Learning practical measures to improve waste management practices in a highly operational, multicultural and public facing environment
Anne Karin Kehlhofer, Manager Environmental Sustainability, Taronga Conservation Society Australia
11:30 Plastic is not evil, the improper disposal of it is
NevHouse takes waste that companies and individuals throw away and turns it into affordable shelter. Nev will share with you his solution for recycling dilemma of contaminated low grade mixed waste plastic. Discover his journey and understand how 4 tonnes of plastic can be turned to 50m2 structure in developing nations.
Nev Hyman, Founder, NevHouse
12:00 Networking lunch
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
13:00 Efficient operational waste management through good design
- Understanding policy drivers impacting sustainable projects
- Ensuring new developments operate effectively, safely and efficiently in an environmentally sustainable manner
- Avoiding common pitfalls in the design process and during building operation
- Lessons learnt from best practice examples
Valentina Petrone, Senior Environmental Consultant, Encycle Consulting
13:30 Getting serious about e-waste – innovative new e-waste solutions
- Discovering the world-first e-waste microfactory launched at UNSW
- Recovering valuable metals from e-waste – identifying the metals and discussing the quantity
- Transforming e-waste into value-added substances and products to meet existing and new industry and consumer demands
- Discussing the future of the e-waste microfactory in Australia
Dr Samane Maroufi, Research Associate, SMaRT
14:00 Afternoon tea break
WASTE PREVENTION AND REDUCTION
14:30 Case study: GPT steps up war on disposable coffee cups
- Understanding the GPT innovative project targeting reusable coffee cups
- Discovering the big numbers behind the project
- Highlighting the challenges when implementing the project
- Discussing the results
Belinda Chellingworth, Resource Recovery, The GPT Group
15:00 The state of circular economy in Australia
- Defining circular economy and framing it into waste management
- Understanding federal and state policy impacting on circular economy
- Discovering the research and findings of the Institute of Sustainable Future (ISF)
- Emphasising the importance of collaboration in systemic change
Nick Florin, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
15:30 Understanding behaviour change program design and evaluation
- Discussing people’s behaviour towards waste prevention campaigns
- Shifting the approach and improving the effectiveness of waste management
- Discovering how to influence people's behavior towards recycling and waste prevention
Jenni Downes, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
16:00 Closing remarks from the Chair
16:15 End of Day Two and End of the Conference