SCRAP, RECYCABLES AND MORE: WASTE AND RECYCLING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON TOMORROW’S TRENDS TODAY

One man’s trash is another’s treasure, or so waste and recycling keynote speakers note when they cover:

• Emerging technologies – Innovations in collection, sorting, processing to increase efficiency, automation and improve recycling rates. Think robotics, optical sorting, AI-enabled processes.
• Sustainable materials management – Strategies that waste and recycling keynote speakers suggest beyond recycling to redesign products/packaging, reduce waste, and keep materials in use.
• Transitioning to a circular economy – Business models and infrastructure to transition from a take-make-waste economy to a closed-loop system.
• Organics management – New or improving ways to capture the value of organic wastes through composting, anaerobic digestion, waste-to-energy.
• Hard-to-recycle materials – Options that waste and recycling keynote speakers see for materials like textiles, carpet, mattresses, and flexible packaging that often end up in landfills.
• Behavior change and education – Research and methods for getting people to reduce waste, reuse, recycle and make sustainable purchasing decisions.
• Partnerships and collaborations – Models for increased public, private and community collaboration to improve local recycling and waste programs.
• Policy and legislation updates – Analysis of new regulations, laws, programs, and funding related to recycling, landfills, and waste reduction.
• Safety and workforce development – Improving safety protocols, culture, training, diversity, and skills development within the industry as waste and recycling keynote speakers.
• Business sustainability – How waste and recycling firms can reduce their own environmental footprint through clean fleet technologies, renewable energy, corporate practices.
• Strategic forecasting – Analysis as waste and recycling keynote speakers of market conditions, commodity prices, investments, and economic trends influencing the waste sector.