[GreenYes] Call For Papers

[Neil Tangri <ntangri@essential.org>]

>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:34:36 -0500
>From: Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management
<Solid.Waste@widener.edu>
>
>The Seventeenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and
Management 
>
>Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. 
>October 21 - 24, 2001 
>
>Call For Papers
>
>-Abstracts are encouraged from all areas of solid waste technology and
management. 
>-Click  here to view the detailed Call For Papers on the internet. 
>-The home page is:  www.widener.edu/solid.waste . 
>-A printable version that can be posted or distributed is in the attached
file. 
>  
>
>  The Seventeenth International Conference on Solid Waste
Technology and Management
October 21 - 24, 2001                     Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A

Call For Papers
                                      
                                      

Sponsors: The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management; 
          Widener University; The University of Pennsylvania
                                      
                                      
A major international conference on solid waste will be held in
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. on October 21- 24, 2001.  Participants are
expected from over 30 countries.

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


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

               Landfilling topics 
               Recycling 
               Energy recovery and thermal treatment 
               Waste reduction 
               Economics  
               Policy  
               Regulations 
               Facility siting 
               Public involvement  
               Education 
               Household hazardous wastes 
               Waste composition studies 
               Composting and biological treatment 
               Chemical and biochemical treatment 
               Municipal wastes 
               Industrial wastes 
               Contaminated sites 
               Mining and mineral wastes 
               Medical wastes 
               Scrap tires 
               Agricultural wastes 
               Research topics 
               Modeling 
               Utilization of waste materials 
               Case studies 
               Innovative technologies 
               Waste collection 
               Waste generation studies 
               Integrated waste management 
               Equipment 
               Sludge 
               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, 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 4059, e-mail: solid.waste@widener.edu, phone: 610 499 4042 .

The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 20, 2001.

For more information: www.widener.edu/solid.waste