Year: 2016

The eleventh International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT 11) was held in Beijing from 21-24 of October. More than 450 participants from the governments, universities, research institutes and industrial enterprises of 27 countries and regions attended the conference.

Three workshops were held in conjunction with the ICWMT 11, including the Recovery Processing of Discarded Electrical Appliances and Electronics & Used Product Identification Workshop, Seminar of Solid Waste Management in Macao and the Pearl River Delta Region and Seminar of Lead Based Paint Substitution and Lead Acid Batteries Recycling. In addition, field trips to companies that demonstrate the technologies of electronic waste dismantling and terminal treatment and of hazardous waste disposal and resource utilization were organized by the conference. The “Cooperation Agreement on the Development of Capacity Building for Hazardous Waste Co-processing” was signed between Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and Beijing Eco-island Science and Technology Co., Ltd during the conference.

After eleven years’ development, the international conference on waste management and technology is more and more recognized globally and has become one of the most important international conferences for the technical and academic exchange in the solid waste field.

Since 2005, ICWMT 11 aims to build an academic platform for the experts, researchers and industrial elites who work in the solid waste field to elaborate scientific concepts, present successful management experience of solid waste and to search for solutions for solid waste problems.