E-news Express
http://www.ewmce.com/
Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
By Dr. Jerry Leonard
Addition to Edmonton's Resource System
March 11-14th, 2008, were key dates for many people in environmentally related industries. About 10,000 of them attended the GLOBE conference and trade show in Vancouver, and EWMCE was represented by myself, Katrin Hoffmann and Joanna Klimowicz. The event provided a great opportunity to renew old contacts, make lots of new ones, and to hear speakers on a variety of topics. Waste management was not, in itself, a central topic of the conference, where the preponderance of sessions dealt with global warming, renewable energy, and related issues. Nevertheless, waste management is directly related to these issues by the various energy-from-waste technologies and, perhaps more importantly, waste management (or resource management) is a key component in the overarching theme of global sustainability. This will be one aspect of the keynote address of author and filmmaker Heather Rogers (Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage) at our May conference: Waste-The Social Context. We look forward to seeing you there!
In the meantime, the latest addition to Edmonton's integrated resource management system was officially opened on March 11th. The E-waste facility located at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre is owned and operated by GEEP (www.geepinc.com) and will handle a large part of the electronics recycling for Western Canada. EWMCE congratulates all those involved in this significant development, and we look forward to working with them in the future.
