Providing unique networking opportunities and the latest news, education, innovations and products to help you achieve success in your operations, attendees will have opportunities to interact with industry leaders and expand their professional network to help them develop solutions to the pressing global and local issues they face every day.
For the first time in nearly two decades, the 2017 International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) World Congress is being hosted by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) in Baltimore, MD.
The World Congress is the biggest annual event organized by ISWA. WASTECON® is SWANA’s premier solid waste industry-focused conference in North America. From Monday, September 25, 2017 to Wednesday, September 27, 2017, this epic gathering combines two exciting international events in one convenient location.
This collaboration by the leading global and North American waste associations will provide unique networking opportunities and the latest news, education, innovations and products to help you achieve success in your operations.Attendees will have opportunities to interact with industry leaders and expand their professional network to help them develop solutions to the pressing global and local issues they face every day.
Timely Topics
Bring your critical thinking and creative ideas to discussions on these featured issues. Multiple speakers will be engaging you in conversation around these topics. Many of these subject matter experts are featured here to help you prepare for the lively interchange of opinions.
Circular Economy
How will the Circular Economy be an opportunity for the waste management sector—as a catalyst for new skills, innovation, knowledge and development—that will result in new technologies, business models and partnerships?
Climate Change
ISWA, along with 30 member countries, signed a declaration committing to the reduction of GHG emissions through proven waste and resource management techniques. What strategies are cities of the world using to influence climate changing factors?
Closing Dumpsites
The world’s most polluted places include the 50 biggest dumpsites that need to be replaced with environmentally sound and safe waste management facilities that will provide green jobs and better living conditions to millions of people. ISWA leads the way with a call to action. How will you answer the call?
Time to See
See American solid waste innovation and sustainability at its finest by enjoying one or more of the five full-day tour and half-day tour options during the ISWA World Congress & WASTECON 2017. These fascinating tours locations range from nearby Maryland, all the way to New York City—whatever your preference, we have a tour for you!
Anne Arundel County, Millersville Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility
Thursday, September 28
12:30 – 16:30
The Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works owns and manages the Millersville Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility located in Severn, Maryland. It is the only active municipal solid waste landfill owned by the County. Participants will see the landfill, the landfill-gas-to-electricity facility, cardboard baling operation and residential drop-off center.
Prince George’s County Waste Management
Thursday, September 28
8:30 – 16:30
This full-day tour includes three facilities: organics composting facility; Brown Station Road Sanitary Landfill Facility, featuring an active municipal solid waste landfill with a leachate pretreatment system and a landfill-gas-to-energy facility; and the single-stream County materials recycling facility.
Montgomery County’s Integrated Solid Waste Management Facilities
Thursday, September 28
8:30 – 17:00
In 2015, the County received SWANA’s Gold Excellence Award for the category of Integrated Solid Waste Management Systems. The full-day tour will include four facilities:
Recycling Center—This facility received a SWANA 2004 Gold Recycling Excellence Award and a 2007 SWANA Gold Recycling Systems Award
Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station—The roof of the Shady Grove Processing Facility and the transfer station is the site of the Montgomery County Government’s first large-scale solar project. In 2003, this facility won the SWANA Silver Transfer Station award. The facility also achieved the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Star status with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor in 2011, the highest safety program recognition available.
Resource Recovery Facility—This facility is the recipient of a SWANA Gold award, VPP Star designation, and is operated by Covanta.
Compost Facility—The facility is independently certified as ISO4001:2015 compliant Environmental Management System and is operated by Maryland Environmental Services.
Baltimore County Central Acceptance Facility and Eastern Sanitary Landfill
Thursday, September 28
8:30 – 16:00
This full-day tour includes two facilities. First, the Central Acceptance Facility featuring three solid waste management activities. Second, the Eastern Sanitary Landfill highlights: an active municipal solid waste landfill; a transfer station operation for residential and commercial MSW; residents’ drop-off areas; yard waste composting; and a 3 megawatt (MW) landfill gas-to-energy plant and a landfill gas well field.
Fresh Kills Landfill/Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Thursday, September 28
8:30 – 17:00
Journey by tour bus to explore what was once the largest landfill in the world. When finished in 2037, the landfill will function as a park covering 2,200 acres on Staten Island. Experience this highly engineered site and its infrastructure systems that manage landfill gas and leachate as you witness its transformation into an incredibly beautiful landscape. Following the tour, participants will travel by bus to midtown Manhattan to close out your ISWA World Congress & WASTECON 2017 journey by enjoying New York City’s sights or flying out of Newark, NJ airport. Otherwise, stay seated and travel back to Baltimore by bus.
Time to Experience
To complement your time in the classroom at technical sessions, our mobile session options facilitate hands-on learning experiences.
Wheelabrator Baltimore WTE Facility
Three Options:
Tuesday, September 26, 8:00 – 10:00
Tuesday, September 26, 14:00 – 16:00
Wednesday, September 27, 9:00 – 11:00
Operating since 1985, Wheelabrator Baltimore is a 64 MW waste-to-energy facility that uses up to 2,250 tons of post-recycled waste from area homes and businesses. In addition to fueling the plant’s operations, the renewable electricity is sold to the local utility—the equivalent of supplying the electrical needs of 40,000 Maryland homes. The plant provides steam to the downtown heating loop, which serves more than 230 businesses, including M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. The waste-to-energy facility successfully reduces the volume of incoming waste by approximately 90 percent. It also recovers ferrous metals from the ash residue, which are shipped offsite to be recycled. Tour participants will follow trash as it comes into the receiving pit and moves throughout the system.
Baltimore City Quarantine Road Landfill
Tuesday, September 26,
14:00 – 16:00
The Quarantine Road Landfill covers 125 acres and accepts annually approximately 330,000 tons of mixed waste and recycling. It is the only viable landfill in Baltimore City and is an essential component of the City’s solid waste program. The landfill currently accepts municipal solid waste, ash from solid waste combustion at the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy facility, industrial waste, City-owned wastewater treatment plant screenings and grit, and City-owned water and wastewater treatment plant residues. It also includes a recycling station that accepts single-stream recycling, electronics, waste oil, antifreeze, tires, scrap metal and white goods. In addition to seeing the landfill, participants will learn about the facility, which uses it to meet its federal mandates.
National Aquarium
Thursday, September 28,
8:00 – 10:00
Baltimore National Aquarium offers a presentation on marine litter and aquatic animals. Following the presentation, attendees will have access to the aquarium exhibits.
Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus
Wednesday, September 27,
9:00 – 11:00
See and learn about the program’s resource reduction and recovery efforts that highlight: a dual stream system to collect fiber and container materials in academic buildings and residence halls. Tour also includes organics collection, electronics recycling, furniture reuse, and Terracyle brigades, plus biohazard waste collection. Explore a state-of-the-art undergraduate teaching lab, designed to focus on efficiency and sustainability.
Baltimore City Marine Litter Prevention
Wednesday, September 27,
9:00 – 11:00
Wednesday, September 27,
14:00 – 16:00
This is a bus tour of sites focused on keeping trash out of the Baltimore Harbor. In addition to upstream prevention efforts such as street sweeping, storm drain screens, public trash cans and community enhancement efforts, participants will see Mr. Trash Wheel, the world’s first sustainably powered trash interceptor. The device uses solar and hydropower to turn a conveyor that lifts trash from the water. It is seen as an innovative, viable solution for removing trash from the oceans. Participants will view the Trash Wheel and hear from the owner and operator, as well as the company that invented the technology. In addition to viewing the Trash Wheel, tour participants will see a skimmer boat in action. The boat is one of a fleet of 13 vessels owned by the Baltimore Department of Public Works to collect trash and debris from the harbor.
Canoe ‘N’ Scoop
Wednesday, September 27,
7:30 – 10:00
Explore the harbor via kayak while collecting trash with a trash picker through the Middle Branch of the Patapsco (to the south of Baltimore Refuse Energy Systems Company and Nick’s Fish House). Don’t miss this unique way to see the city from a different perspective while you see first-hand the impact of an urban environment, including the trash that builds up during downpours.
Keynote Speakers
John Bradburn, General Motors
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Nelson Switzer, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Nestle Waters North America
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Kathryn Garcia, Commissioner, New York City Department of Sanitation
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Jim McKay, General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, City of Toronto
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Antonis Mavropoulos, President, International Solid Waste Association
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Timothy Bouldry, ISWA Scholarship Programme
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Jim Fish CEO, Waste Management
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Steve Jones CEO, Covanta
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Chad Pregracke Living Lands and Waters
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Nate Morris CEO, Rubicon Global
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Thomas McQuillan, Business Analyst, Baldor Specialty Foods, New York
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Gary Crawford, VP International Affairs, Public Affairs Department, Veolia, France
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Marianne Blanc, Key Accounts Director, Suez North America, New York
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Bruno Covas, Vice-Mayor, São Paulo, Brazil
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David Mawhinney, Chef, Haven’s Kitchen, New York
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Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Richard Allen, SWANA President, Arizona
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David Newman, President, World Biogas Association, United Kingdom
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Time to Meet
“The Great North American Road Show” Welcome Reception
Sponsored by Waste Management
Monday, September 25 18:30 – 21:00, Exhibit Hall
Join us for an evening of fun as we take you on a “condensed” cross-country tour of the U.S. and Canada—in the WASTECON Exhibit Hall. Plan to catch up with industry friends while you enjoy the tastes, sights and sounds that North America has to offer.
Check out SWANA Chapters
Special regional landmarks are stationed along your journey. Meet with local leaders who are ready to share their cultures and food specialties while you tour this “Great Road Show.” Attire is casual. We’re in B’more so our motto is “Be more” casual.
Time to Celebrate
Networking Gala
Tuesday September 26
19:00 – 23:00
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Enjoy a truly American experience as the ISWA World Congress’ Wednesday Night Networking Gala takes you to Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Join us for food, fun and dancing—American-style—at the official home of the Orioles baseball team in convenient downtown Baltimore.
Schedule-at-a-Glance
All events located at the Baltimore Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, September 23, 2017
8:00 – 16:00 Onsite Registration Open
Sunday, September 24, 2017
8:00 – 17:00 Onsite Registration Open
13:00 – 17:00
Student Design Competition — Part I (Young Professionals)
17:30 –19:30
5K Fun Run/Walk for Charity (start/finish: Pratt Street Ale House)
Monday, September 25, 2017
7:00 – 10:00 Student Design Competition — Part II (Young Professionals)
8:00 – 8:45 Poster Presentations
8:00 – 20:00 Onsite Registration Open
9:15 – 9:45 Round Table Meet & Greet
10:00 – 10:30 Opening Ceremony
11:00 – 11:45 Climate Change Keynote Session (1 CEU)
11:45 – 12:45 CEO Roundtable Keynote Session (1 CEU)
12:45 – 14:00 Flying “Sparcs” and “Ugly Foods” Luncheon
(1 CEU)
14:00 – 15:00
Smart Technologies Keynote Session — Smart Cities: The Data-Driven Evolution of Waste Management (1 CEU)
17:15 – 18:00
Smart Technologies Keynote Panel: Smart Technologies and their impact on Collection & Transportation of Waste (1 CEU)
18:30 – 21:00 Welcome Reception (Exhibit Hall)
21:00 – 23:00
Young Professionals Networking Event (YPs & Invitation Only)
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
6:30 – 7:00 Morning Stretch
8:00 – 19:00 Onsite Registration Open
8:00 – 9:00
SWANA Awards and Business Meeting *All are welcome.
9:00 – 9:30 ISWA Award Presentation
9:30 – 10:30
Megacities Solid Waste Leaders Keynote Panel (1 CEU)
10:00 – 14:00 Exhibit Hall Open
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break in the Exhibit Hall
12:00 – 13:00 SWANA YP Annual Meeting
14:00 – 14:45
Climate Change Keynote Session: The New Plastics Economy (0.75 CEU)
15:00 – 15:45
Marine Litter Keynote Session: Introduction of Marine Litter Segment (0.75 CEU)
16:00 – 16:45 Marine Litter Keynote Session (0.75 CEU)
17:00 – 17:45 Marine Litter Keynote Session (0.75 CEU)
17:45 – 18:15
Breakout Session with Chad Pegracke (0.5 CEU)
19:00 – 23:00
Gala Networking Event
(Camden Yards-Orioles’ Stadium)
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
7:00 – 8:00 Morning Stretch
8:00 – 17:00 Onsite Registration Open
8:30 – 10:30 Safety Super Session (2 CEUs)
9:30 – 10:30 Global Biogas Opportunity Keynote (1 CEU)
11:00 – 11:50
Closing the Dump Sites Keynote Session/Proclamation (1 CEU)
11:50 – 12:10 ISWA YPG Solutions presentations
12:10 – 13:00 ISWA World Congress Closing Ceremonies
13:00 – 14:00 ISWA YPG Annual Meeting
13:00 – 17:00 Closing Reception & Exhibit Meeting
13:30 – 15:00 SWANA Chapter Safety Ambassador Meeting
Thursday, September 28, 2017
8:00 – 10:00 Onsite Registration Open
8:00
Golf Tournament
(Ticketed Event; shotgun start)
8:00 – 17:00
Showcase of Tours in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Ticketed Events)
9:00 – 13:00 ISWA Working Group on Healthcare Waste
8:30 – 12:00
WORKSHOP: State of the Art Solid Waste Management Modeling (3.5 CEUs)
Time for New Ideas
International Solid Waste Design Competition (SWDC)
SWANA’s International Solid Waste Design Competition (SWDC) is a student team competition to solve “real world” problems faced by solid waste professionals. The competition aims at providing design experience to the students interested in pursuing an education and/or career in solid waste management. The program encourages student involvement in ISWA World Congress & WASTECON 2017, provides students with real world experience in solving complex solid waste management issues in a supportive and fun environment, provides students with an opportunity to display their talents, and provides a networking opportunity for students to connect with potential employers. Join us at ISWA’s World Congress & WASTECON 2017 and support these 10 teams of students from universities all over the world as they compete for the top prize!
Florida Atlantic University
University of Maryland
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
Ohio State University
University of Cienfuegos, Cuba
University of Texas at Arlington
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Tsinghua University, China
Belgrade Polytechnic University, Serbia
Case Western Reserve University
Time for Fun
5K Fun Run-Walk for Charity
Race Date: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Check-in Time: 17:00
Registration Fee: $35
All proceeds from the 5K Fun Run/Walk will support the ISWA Scholarship Programme, an international charity. Runners and walkers will take off and finish at the Pratt Street Ale House located directly across from the Baltimore Convention Center, an awesome course through the city of Baltimore. Runners and those that just register for the Pratt Street Ale House Event will receive a t-shirt and beer with registration.
2017 Golf Tournament
Location: The Woodlands Golf Course
Address: 2309 Ridge Rd, Windsor Mill, MD 21244
Time/Date: Shotgun start at 8:00 Thursday, September 28, 2017
There really is, “No Time to Waste!” Learn more at ISWA2017.org to join thousands of industry professionals, gathering from around the world, at this unique East Coast metropolitan destination.
As they say in Baltimore, “See you in Bal’mer, hon!”
For more information, visit wastecon.org and iswa2017.org