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The 24th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
March 15 - 18, 2009

Call For Papers

 

Founder: Iraj Zandi, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Chair: Ronald L. Mersky, Widener University, USA

Scientific Committee:

  • Haluk Akgun,  Middle East Technical University, Turkey

  • Giuseppe Bonifazi, Sapienza – Universitŕ di Roma, Italy

  • Shoou-Yuh Chang, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

  • Thomas Coskeran, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

  • Ruby Mejía de Gutiérrez, Universidad del Valle - Escuela de Ingenieriá de Materiales, Colombia

  • Mervat El-Hoz, University of Balamand, Lebanon

  • Toru Furuichi, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

  • Kasturi Gadgil, I.I.T. Delhi, India

  • Noah Galil, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

  • William L. Magette, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Ilan Nissim, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel

  • Sara Ojeda-Benitez, Autonomous University of Baja California Engineering Institute, México

  • Chukwu Onu, Southern University and A & M College, USA

  • Paul S. Phillips, University of Northampton, UK

  • Eva Pongrácz, University of Oulu, Finland

  • Jason Scott, The University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Sally Spankie, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • Jerry Uhuo, National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria

  • Bruce G. Wilson, University of New Brunswick, Canada

  • Anita Závodská, Barry University, USA

 

 

 

Click here to submit your abstract

(read the Notes for on-line submission located further down this page)

 

Click here for a printable Call For Papers that can be posted or distributed

 

 

 

 

 


 

The 24th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management will be held in Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. on March 15 - 18, 2009.  Participants are expected from over 40 countries.
 

Researchers, educators, government officials, consultants, managers, community leaders and others with an interest in solid waste are invited to submit papers for oral presentation or poster session at the Conference.

Papers related to all aspects of solid waste technology and management are of interest, including: 

Landfill topics

Recycling

Economics 

Waste reduction

Energy recovery and thermal treatment

Composting and biological treatment

Policy

Regulations

EU directives

Facility siting

Public involvement 

Education

Household hazardous wastes

Waste composition studies

Chemical and biochemical treatment

Contaminated sites

Municipal wastes

Industrial wastes

Mining and mineral wastes

Medical wastes

Scrap tires

Agricultural wastes

Research topics

Modeling

Utilization of waste materials

Case studies

Solid waste dust

Innovative technologies

Waste collection

Waste generation studies

Integrated waste management

Equipment

Sludge

Ash

Use of waste materials in construction

Environmental impacts

Construction and demolition wastes

Geotechnical topics

Liners, caps, gas and leachate

Environmental equity

Carbon emissions reduction

All other related topics

To submit a paper, please click here for the on-line submission form. A confirmation will be sent to you within 1 week.  

Notes for on-line submission: 

  • the abstract should be as brief as feasible (maximum size is 1000 characters).  

  • the on-line submission form does not accept the "Enter" key to space between paragraphs.  The abstract should be entered as one continuous  paragraph with standard punctuation.

  • If you copy and paste your abstract into the on-line submission form, do not use the "Enter" key in the document that is copied.  It would be interpreted as the end of the abstract.

On-line submission is strongly preferred.  If you are unable to use the on-line submission form, a one-page abstract (in English) should be sent to:

Dr. Ronald L. Mersky,
Conference Chair
Department of Civil Engineering
Widener University
1 University Place,
Chester, PA 19013-5792 U.S.A.

Fax: 610 499 4461
e-mail: solid.waste@widener.edu
phone: 610 499 4042

Include: the paper title; the names of all authors; the complete postal and email addresses of the corresponding author; a brief abstract

Indicate if you wish to present the paper as an oral presentation, poster session, or both.
 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 31, 2008.  Early submission is encouraged.

A discounted Conference registration fee will be available for authors of accepted papers.

Student presentations will be included in the Conference.

Written versions of papers presented at the Conference may be published in the Conference Proceedings.

Papers presented at the Conference may be reviewed for possible publication in the Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management.

Authors may submit multiple abstracts.  However, no person may present more than two papers at the Conference.

 To learn about the Conference structure, you may wish to view the agenda of the 23rd Conference: 23rd Agenda