International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

The 22nd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
March 18 - 21, 2007

Call For Papers

 

Founder: Iraj Zandi, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Chair: Ronald L. Mersky, Widener University, USA

Scientific Committee:

• Haluk Akgun, Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Giuseppe Bonifazi, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
• Shoou-Yuh Chang, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
• Thomas Coskeran, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
• Ruby Mejía de Gutiérrez, Universidad del Valle - Escuela de Ingenieriá de Materiales, Colombia
• Mervat El-Hoz, University of Balamand, Lebanon
• Kasturi Gadgil, I.I.T. Delhi, India
• Noah Galil, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• William L. Magette, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Sara Ojeda-Benitez, Autonomous University of Baja California Engineering Institute, Mexico
• Chukwu Onu, Southern University and A & M College, USA
• Paul S. Phillips, University of Northampton, United Kingdom
• Eva Pongrácz, University of Oulu, Finland
• Jason Scott, University of New South Wales, Australia
• 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 22nd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management will be held in Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. on March 18 - 21, 2007.  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
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 30, 2006.  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 21st Conference: 21st Agenda