Summit 2022

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