Adelaide’s pioneering Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre will showcase its environmental achievements as major sponsor for this year’s ENVIRO‘14 Conference and Exhibition.

A three-day national event run by the Australian Water Association (AWA) and Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA), ENVIRO’14 is an environmental business conference and exhibition.

ENVIRO’14 Pathways for Better Business Conference & Exhibition will run at the Adelaide Convention Centre from September 17-19, attracting speakers from Australian and international environment and industry bodies.

The Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre www.wingfieldrecycling.com.au is a world-class resource recovery and waste recycling operation that contains a collaborative cluster of commercial businesses on a 94ha site in the north of Adelaide. Recycling precinct partners include

• Adelaide Resource Recovery
• Jeffries, recycling 100,000 tonnes of green waste annually
• EDL Energy Developments Ltd harnessing methane gas to generate power
• Orora, Recycling paper and cardboard waste
• TPI (TransPacific Industries), accepting residual waste for the landfill facility at Inkerman, north of Adelaide.

KESAB environmental solutions operate the Wingfield Education Centre providing an interactive learning experience on site for school and community visitation.

Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre spokesman Hugh Hocking said the precinct had created a sustainable recycling sector that delivered jobs, profits and environmental dividends.

As major sponsor for ENVIRO’14, Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre is teaming with the South Australian Government and SA Water, the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) and the Australian Solar Council.

This year’s conference theme, ‘Pathways for better business’, will be an important event for industry, government and the environmental sectors to gather and shape policy, and progress on sustainable enterprise said Ms Trixie Smith, Technical Program Director.

ENVIRO‘14 continues the tradition of ENVIRO conferences by showcasing the best that the water and waste industries have to offer. Clean Energy and Clean Air will be incorporated into ENVIRO‘14 due to their close alignment with the waste and water sectors.

Conference Key Speakers:  As at June 2014

• Jonathon Trent - OMEGA Project Scientist, NASA Ames Research Centre
• Richard J. Pope - Vice President, ARCADIS, New York
• Benjamin Hewett - SA Government Architect & Executive Director of the Office for Design and Architecture SA
• Dr Felicity-ann Lewis - President ALGA, Mayor of Marion
• Jon Dee - Founder & MD DoSomething! and Planet Ark founder
• John Phillips OAM, Executive Director KESAB environmental solutions

Event will practice what it preaches…

ENVIRO'14 will apply proven sustainable practices to all aspects of the event including energy, waste, resources, transport, catering and water.Wherever possible and practical, strategies will be utilised to reduce the carbon ‘footprint’ of the event and minimise waste and consumption of resources. Emissions that cannot be avoided will be offset.

Major initiatives will include predominant electronic distribution of all conference material, the minimisation of energy consumption and the use of recycled or recyclable products including name badges and signage.

The inevitability of carbon regulation is real and the impact on the events industry could be significant. By establishing and implementing a set of ‘guidelines’ we will reduce any future impact of such regulation and in doing so reduce future cost increases.  This will positively contribute toward improving the environment.

Visit:  www.enviroconvention.com.au

Media Contact: Trixie Smith, Technical Program Director, 0423 865 747

Media Support in Adelaide for images or data, Mike O’Reilly, 0414 882 505

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