WasteMINZ virtual summit; Tomorrow, today, ran from 9 to 11 May 2022 and was sponsored by:
Platinum Partners: Visy, and Tonkin + Taylor
Gold Sponsors: Eurofins New Zealand, and Hill Laboratories
Silver Sponsors: Countdown, LOADRITE Scales, EnviroNZ, Foodstuffs, and Waste Management
Website Sponsor: Waste Management
On 9 May, the CLM workshop opened with a mihi whakatau. On 10 May, prior to the opening plenary, the summit opened with a mihi whakatau. The summit then closed on 11 May with a karakia whakamutunga. All of these were led by kaumatua Taki Turner (Waikato Tainui Ngāti Wairere).
Two workshops ran on 9 May – ‘Te ara whakahounga: Embracing Māori views from a contaminated land perspective’ and the ‘Territorial Authorities’ Officers Forum.
On 10 May, the summit had two streams – waste and resource recovery, and contaminated land management, and the numerous plenaries, panel discussions, and other presentations were spread across the two streams
The following keynotes presented at the summit:
Alex Barnes, PouAronui-Manager, Evaluation and Inclusion, TupoOra, and PhD candidate, Auckland University of Technology: Pitfalls and potential: At the interface of Māori-non- Māori environmental governance
Liz Moncrieff, Director – RM Reform, Ministry for the Environment: Out future resource management system – an update on our journey
Jo Hendy, Chief Executive, Climate Change Commission: How climate change policy will drive waste infrastructure in 2025 and beyond
Alison McKinnie, Technical Consultant (Organics), Zero Waste Scotland: Helping to develop market confidence – Scotland’s journey
Sean Simpson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, LanzaTech: There is no such thing as waste
Robert Gregory, Director, Gregory Environmental Consulting: Stop the stink. The reality of how to manage hydrogen sulphide generation and emission in landfills
Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment: Circular Economy – a journey starting with waste
Joe Pickin, Director, Blue Environment Pty: The role on data in waste and circular economy policy – an Australian perspective
Peter Wilson, Principal Economist, NZ Institute of Economic Research: Seven simple rules for helping save the planet, or at least our little part of it
Attendee List
Please see the list of attendees for the WasteMINZ Virtual Summit 2022 here.