Waste Management Workshop Malaysia - POSTPONED

UK Malaysia Joint Workshop on Improving Waste Management and Recycling – POSTPONED

We are sorry to say that the event has been postponed to January 2020. We hope for your continued support and interest to participate in the future event, and will update with more details closer to the time.

Roughly two thirds of plastic waste in the UK is exported overseas for recycling. 105,000 tonnes of it was exported to Malaysia alone between 2017 and 2018. There are opportunities for improving future value recovery by collaborating on waste traceability, advanced separation and specialist re-processing, according to the type and volume of waste, to minimise landfill and reduce environmental impact.

The purpose of this workshop will be to identify opportunities for collaboration to address UK and Malaysian waste management challenges. The workshop aims to support technology transfer collaborations, based on strengths and assets within the UK and Malaysia; support better international uptake of emergent research and technologies from the UK and Malaysia; and develop links with industry partners of mutual interest and potential.

Speakers from the Center for waste Management at University of Malaysia will set out challenge statements and current policy directions in Malaysia. The current UK landscape and state-of-art in municipal waste recovery will be presented, along with emerging technologies and commercial capabilities.

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AGENDA

UK – Malaysia Joint Workshop on Improving Waste Management and Recycling
1	10.30 – 11.00	Reception and registration	Refreshments
2	11.00 – 11.10	Welcome address	Prof Simon Pollard Pro-Vice Chancellor, School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University
3		Landscape
	11.10 – 11.40	Challenge statements and policy directions – University of Malaya Center for Research in Waste Management	Dr Fauziah Binti Shahul Hamid Head of Center Prof Agamuthu A/L Pariatamby, Founder and President of Malaysian Society of Waste Management and Environment
	11.40 – 11.50	UK landscape Programmes, funding and agency support	Dr Sally Beken, Knowledge Exchange Manager – Polymers, InnovateUK
	11.50 – 12.10	International engagement	Mr Stephen Bates, Director Environmental Communications Consultants Ltd Mr Richard Carey-Evans, Export Growth Trade Advisor, Department for International Trade
	12.10 – 12.30	Municipal Waste Management Current Practices – Case Study	Speaker to be confirmed, Amey – Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park
	12.30 – 13.15	Lunch and Networking
4		Perspectives
	13.15 – 13.25	Understanding impacts of waste and environmental challenges	Dr Ruben Sakrabani, Senior Lecturer in Soil Chemistry, University of Cranfield
5		What is needed to facilitate effective waste management
	13.25 – 13.35	Live data platforms for mapping the generation, movement and fate of waste	Mr Michael Groves, Founder and CEO, Topolytics (Winner Circular Economy 2030 Challenge, 2019)
	13.35 – 13.45	Real-time waste analysis	Dr Stuart Wagland, Senior Lecturer In Energy and Environmental Chemistry, University of Cranfield
	13.45 – 13.55	Waste separation	Speaker to be confirmed
6		Technology solutions
	13.55 – 14.05	Resource recovery	Dr Ewan McAdam, Reader in Process Engineering, University of Cranfield
	14.05 – 14.15	Hazardous waste site remediation	Prof Frederic Coulon, Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Cranfield
	14.15 – 14.35	Energy from waste	Prof Patricia Thornley, Director European Bioenergy Research Institute, University of Aston
	14.35 – 14.50	Recycling waste plastic back into oil	Prof Gary Leeke, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, (Technical Advisory Panel, Recycling Technologies)
	14.50 – 15.05	Coal-like fuel from wet biomass and wastes, hydrothemal carbonisation (HTC)	Prof Colin Snape, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, with Energy Research Accelerator and CPL Industries
	15.05 – 15.15	Recycling plastic aluminium laminates	Speaker to be confirmed
	15.15- 15.30	Food waste processing	Speakers to be confirmed
	15.30-15.40	Composting / Insect farming	Speaker to be confirmed
6	15.40 – 16.00	Panel discussion – Questions and Answers