The Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and Technology was held in Suzhou from August 30 to September 1, 2011. The annual International Conference on Solid Waste Management and Technology, organized by the Basel Convention Regional Center for Asia and the Pacific, has become an important platform to elaborate scientific ideas, showcase advanced experience, discuss environmental issues, and find solutions. The conference was organized by Tsinghua University, Solid Waste Branch of the Chinese Society For Environmental Sciences, United Nations Environment Programme, Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity-building and the Transfer of the Technology in Asia and the Pacific, organized by the Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the Solid Waste Management Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, supported by Suzhou Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. A total of more than 270 representatives from domestic and foreign universities, government departments, research institutes and industry attended the conference. The conference set up an academic steering committee and an industry expert committee, which were composed of 48 experts from domestic and foreign solid waste management and technology research and industry fields, Academician Jiming HAO of Tsinghua University served as the chairman of the academic Steering committee, and Professor Jinhui LI, Executive secretary of the School of Environment of Tsinghua University/Basel Convention Coordination Centre for Asia and the Pacific, served as the chairman of the conference.

Academician Jiming HAO, Dean of the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University, Mr. Shigang ZHANG, Chief Representative of UNEP China Office, Dr. Ying CHEN, Solid Waste Management Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on behalf of the Department of Pollution Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, and Mr. Hao QUAN, Director of the Solid Waste Branch of the Chinese Society For Environmental Sciences, addressed the opening ceremony of the conference. Mr. Dadan Wardhana H.S., Secretariat of the Basel Convention; Professor Shinichi Sakai, Chairman of JSWME Solid Waste Management Association, Japan; Fumikazu, Hokkaido University, Japan Professor Yoshida and other 60 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad delivered keynote reports on solid waste management and treatment technology, electronic waste and biomass waste management and treatment technology. Selected Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and Technology will be published in full by the American Research Press and indexed by ISTP.

After the conference, the Basel Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific collated and published the proceedings. 

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