Conference Agenda
9:00 Morning Session Chaired by Enda Kiernan, Chairperson, CIWM Republic of Ireland
9:05 MINISTERIAL OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Alan Dillon, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
9:20 Martina Hennessy, Assistant Secretary for Circular Economy & Resource Efficiency in the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE).
Department of Environment, Climate Action and Communications Presentation
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
9:40 Lithium-ion batteries | The good, the bad and the downright dangerous!
- What is thermal runaway and why does it happen in these batteries?
- Why do we use them and where can we find them?
- What are some of the other issues and what is being done?
- How are they treated at end of life?
- What do we see happening moving forward?
Christopher Porter – Sustainability Consultant and Circular Economy Lead, SLR Consulting Ltd.
10:00 EPA Presentation
Warren Phelan, Programme Manager, Circular Economy Programme, EPA (invited)
10:20 Legal updates on all that has happened in the waste area, both Irish and European, over the last year
Alison Fanagan, Co-head of A&L Goodbody Solicitors Environment & Planning Group
10:40 Q&A 1 Progressing Circular Economy Policies in Ireland
10:55 Morning Coffee Break, Exhibition Viewing and Networking
11:25 Panda’s investments and progress in recent years and how we are continuing to invest to meet recycling targets
- Progress on the Camera Detection System
- Brown bin roll-out
- Capital investment
John Brosnan, Director Residential Collections, Panda Recycling
Barriers to the circular economy and solutions on how to overcome them
- Linear by design, why our economy is linear and not circular
- The economics of the linear economy
- the top 4 barriers to circularity and how to overcome them
David Tobin, Circular Economy and ESG / Sustainability Director, Beauparc Utilities
11:45 Greyhound Presentation
Neill Ryan, CEO, Greyhound Recycling
12:05 The Circular Packaging Waste Challenge
Zoe Kavanagh, CEO, Repak
12:25 Re-turn: DRS 2 years in!
- Update on Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme
Ciaran Foley, CEO, Re-turn
12:45 Local Government Sector Meeting Waste Management & Circular Economy Challenges
Kevin Swift, Regional Co-Ordinator, Connacht Ulster Regional Waste Office
1:05 Q&A 2 Waste Industry’s role in implementing the Circular Economy
1:20 Lunch, Exhibition Viewing and Networking (Sponsored by A&L Goodbody)
2:15 Afternoon Session Chaired by Des Crinion, Chairperson, IWMA
2:20 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Are Waste streams a “Lost Opportunity?
- Current state of play globally on resources,
- Role of waste and resource managers
- Innovations in material extraction
- Presidential report highlighting 6 materials
Dr David Greenfield, President, CIWM UK
2:40 IWMA Updates on Increasing Recycling Rates
- Results so far
- Feedback from Contamination Detection System Trials
- Roll out of video communications with customers
- Better segregation of WEEE and Lithium Batteries”
Conor Walsh, Secretary, Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA)
3:00 Recycling and Circularity – is it achievable?
- Circularity what does it really mean
- Regulation – the gaps
- Failure to support recyclers
- Public perception knowledge and interest in recycling
- Cost of failure to us all
Brian Finnegan, CTO Brian Shabra Group
3:20 CIF Presentation C&D Waste (Invited)
3:40 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The AI enabled MRF – a glimpse into the future of waste processing
- AI sorts: new sorts, improved sorts & where NIR will still be needed
- Redesign of MRFs from the ground up – how AI sorts bring in new layout opportunities
- Case studies in DMR, C&D and WEEE
Victor Dewult, CEO, Recycle Eye
4:00 Q&A 3 The Way Forward for Ireland
4:15 Conference Ends