The 7th National Waste Summit 2009

Achieving sustainable solutions to Ireland's waste industry

19th November 2009, Croke Park Convention Centre, Dublin

The waste management industry in Ireland is worth over €560 million a year and is considered by a recent Forfás report to have a high growth potential.

The National Waste Summit, which is now in its seventh year, is Ireland’s premier waste management conference. Organised by The Sunday Business Post, Ireland’s leading financial, political and economic newspaper, this event is the country's most important forum for today’s waste management professionals, environmental managers, policy-makers and senior business professionals.

With many vitally important decisions to be made by waste policymakers, nationally and internationally by November, this year’s Waste Summit promises to be a hotbed of discussion and debate.

These pending policy decisions on such things as waste tenders and contracts, ownership of collected waste, landfill commitments, infrastructure, export of recyclables and recycling targets, etc. will all have far reaching implications and ramifications for the Irish waste management industry - both in the private and public sectors. When we add to this the much anticipated International Review, the 2009 Waste Summit will be the waste management event not to be missed.

Event Summary -

• International Review of Waste Management Policy
• The implications of the international review and recent court cases on the Department of the Environment’s regulations of waste in Ireland
• The impact of new and emerging policy on the Irish waste industry
• Developments in waste law over the past year
• Review of EU and national waste policy and its impact on the waste-to-energy sector
• The operational impacts of landfilling treated residual waste
• Building on existing Irish waste plastics recycling and reprocessing capabilities
• New waste pre-treatments standards for landfill and incineration
• Proposed regulations on the segregation of food waste - and
• Comparison of the key non-energy from waste (EfW) waste management technologies and recommendations on each.

Who should attend -

• Directors and senior managers in waste operations
• Local authority directors, managers and SEO (senior executive officers) in charge of environmental services
• Advisers to the waste industry - legal, financial, environmental and engineering.

Speakers include -

Dr Dominic Hogg, director, Eunomia Research and Consulting UK, author of International Review of Waste Management Policy
Dr Dominic Hogg has an honours degree in physics and a PhD in economics. He has developed an international reputation for innovative thinking on issues of a technical nature around waste strategy, economics and procurement. He was recently asked by the Irish government to write the International Review of Waste Management Policy, the results of which he will be discussing at this conference.

Diarmid Jamison, technical director, SLR Consulting
Diarmid Jamison is a chartered civil engineer with 25 years of experience in the waste, environment and engineering sectors, working on a broad range of related projects both in Britain and abroad. He is currently technical director within SLR’s waste strategy, technology and contract procurement team. Over the last 12 years, he has completed numerous waste management projects for the public sector and for private companies in Britain.

Jerry Dempsey, managing director, Commercial Services, Greenstar
As managing director of Greenstar’s Commercial Services division, Jerry Dempsey is responsible for the delivery of recycling-led solutions to over 25,000 businesses and 60,000 homes nationwide. He previously worked with United Drug, where he had over seven years of experience in various sales and marketing posts on both a national and international level. Prior to that, Jerry held various sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibilities with a range of multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Jim Kells, chairman, Irish Waste Management Association
Jim Kells graduated from UCD in 1973 and went on to become a primary school principal. He went into business in 1986 by successfully setting up Midlands Refuse Services, which was sold to AES in 2001. He set up Midlands Environmental Services in 1996, which he still runs today. Jim is very active in the Irish waste management industry and was the founding member of the Irish Waste Management Association ten years ago. He is still its chairman today.

Conor Walsh, technical director, SLR Consulting
Conor Walsh joined leading environmental consultancy SLR Consulting’s Dublin office in 2009. With over 20 years of experience in the waste industry, he previously worked for KT Cullen and White Young Green and, more recently, as environment director at Thornton’s Recycling and as a technical adviser to MCR Environmental. A trained geologist and a member of the Britain's Chartered Institution of Waste Management, he has also been a board member of the Composting Association of Ireland (Cré) and a director of the Irish Waste Management Association.

Alison Fanagan, head of Environmental & Planning Group, A&L Goodbody
Alison Fanagan is a consultant in A&L Goodbody's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and a former partner of A&L Goodbody. She is head of environmental and planning. As a litigator, Alison specialises in judicial review cases, challenging decisions of regulatory and public bodies. She advises on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious environmental work - including advice on integrated pollution preventive control (IPPC) and waste licensing, third party liability claims, corporate support/due diligence and planning oral hearings, particularly for large infrastructural projects.
Alison defends companies and directors against environmental and health and safety prosecutions, planning injunctions and other regulatory enforcement actions. Among her clients are Irish Distillers, Ryanair, A1 Waste, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Panda Waste, Pfizer, Indaver, Elan and Campbell Bewley.

PJ Rudden, group director, Environment, RPS Group
PJ Rudden is one of Ireland’s leading consultants and commentators on waste management and other environmental matters. He was the primary consultant on the formulation and adoption of most of the country’s regional waste management plans. He has advised the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and regional and county authorities on waste policies for the last 15 years, which have seen dramatic improvements. He has lectured extensively on waste management in Ireland and internationally and is a member of the EU Evaluation Board on Waste Management for the European Green Capital City Awards in 2010 and 2011.

Jackie Keaney, Irish vice-president, Confederation of European Waste to Energy Plants
Jackie Keaney has a degree in environmental biology from UCD, a masters in environmental studies from Trinity College Dublin and a diploma in public relations from the Fitzwilliam Institute, Dublin. She has been working in the waste management industry for the last seven years. Jackie has experience in managing international licensing for transfrontier shipment of waste and developing communication programmes for and project management of both a proposed hazardous and non-hazardous waste incineration facility. Jackie works closely with the Brussels office of CEWEP and other European members and will use experiences in Europe to help support Irish government policy and the implementation of an environmentally sustainable integrated waste management system in Ireland.

Rita Shah, joint managing director, Shabra Group
Multi-award-winning entrepreneur Rita Shah set up the Monaghan based Shabra Group in 1986 and has since steered it to become an industry leader in the recycling and manufacturing of plastic products. With a client list that includes both domestic and international blue-chip companies, importers and exporters, a wide range of semi-state bodies and health boards, Shabra's growth has far outstripped even Rita’s expectations. Trading on the maxim of one man's junk being another man's fortune, she says - "There is value in everything - even an empty plastic bottle has somewhere to go and is of value."

Dr Jonathan Derham, senior inspector, Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan Derham is a graduate of NUI Cork and Galway. Since graduation, he has worked for over 20 years in the geo-environmental field for public and private sector employers in Ireland and Britain. Jonathan’s principal experience is in the area of industrial and waste regulation and waste management. He regularly contributes to national and EPA waste legislation and policy and has represented Ireland at various EU forums on waste management issues. Jonathan has also undertaken advisory work on behalf of the European Commission in a number of EU new member/accession countries.

SPONSORING COMPANIES

RPS is a leading Irish Consultancy in waste management, sustainability, planning, transportation, engineering, energy and environmental matters. RPS has close to 40 years experience of providing environmentally sustainable solutions to the public and private sectors and works in partnership with all stakeholders on individual studies and projects.

RPS are authors of most of Ireland’s regional waste management plans and advise Government and local authorities - together with the private sector - on waste prevention, minimisation, recycling, energy recovery and residual disposal. In addition, RPS are authors of the award-winning FREE Trade website for Dublin City Council.

RPS assisted the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government with the National Biodegradable Waste Strategy and Forfás with their recent international benchmarking report. RPS was also recently appointed to manage the National Market Development Group for Waste Resources on behalf of the Department and Enterprise Ireland.

RPS has advised the local authorities in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway and Limerick on the planning and development of integrated waste infrastructure with respect to recycling, composting, MBT, waste-to-energy and residual landfill.

RPS increasingly works for the private sector and can provide assessments on due diligence, innovative technologies and development of waste infrastructure generally - including the planning of projects under the Strategic Infrastructure Act. RPS IS also increasingly working on international projects in the UK, mainland Europe and further afield.

Greenstar is Ireland’s largest provider of environmental, waste management and recycling services - offering customers a fully-compliant, transparent and traceable service in collection, materials recovery, recycling, biological treatment - e.g. composting and residual landfill. Additional services include consultation, education, research and environmental and waste auditing.

Since 1999, Greenstar has invested €275m in infrastructure and strategic acquisitions and currently employs 700 people in 40 locations nationwide. Greenstar plans to invest upwards of €250m over the next four years.

Greenstar operates materials recovery facilities (MRFs) in Wicklow, Sligo, Cork and Dublin - including Millennium Park, the country’s largest and most sophisticated automated recycling facility which can divert between 70-85% of waste from landfill.

Greenstar owns and operates four EPA licensed, state-of-the-art residual landfill facilities in Counties Kildare, Meath, Galway and Wicklow. The company was recently awarded the prestigious Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM), PEEL People’s Cup for operational excellence of a waste management facility - together with a Green Apple Environmental Best Practice award - for its residual landfill facility at Ballynagran, Co.Wicklow.

Greenstar currently offers domestic waste services in eight counties nationwide - including Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, Sligo, Kilkenny, Dublin and Mayo.

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES

You can promote your business face-to-face with waste industry decision-makers attending this event.

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Adrian Hopkins, Conference Director
Tel: 01–2811111 or 087 6811830
Email: ahopkins@sbpost.ie

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