Conference presentations 2024
We held the WasteMINZ Conference between 18-21 May 2024 in Hamilton. Check out the presentations from our keynotes and presenters below.
Day 2 - Tuesday, 28 May
Morning sessions
The built environment
- Geoff Gibson Heretaunga, Hastings District Council;
Another brick in the wall: A solutions approach to regional C&D waste barriers - Mark Roberts Auckland Council & Annie Day Naylor Love;
On site resource recovery construction - Sophien Brockbank, Tonkin + Taylor;
Equity of service in high density residential spaces - Carole Smith & Chau Nguyen WSP;
Digital twins as a mechanism to improve circular economy
Placing the future at the forefront
- Monisha Wylie-Kapoor, Auckland Council;
Endless opportunities for a graduate like you!
Lets get technical
- James Conway Pattle Delamore Partners & Dan Harvey Ministry for the Environment;
Investigating waste composition and gas generation at nonmunicipal landfills - Jonathon Shamrock & Simonne Eldridge, Tonkin + Taylor;
Design considerations for steep wall liners in landfills - Melissa Fortune & Jo Ferry, Tonkin + Taylor;
Methane emission reduction targets for landfills – are they achievable? - Prashant Praveen Waste & Recycling Industry Forum;
Reducing biogenic emissions from landfills: Progress and opportunities
CLM: Te ao o te one- The world of soil
- Dave Bull HAIL Environmental & Kim
Wepasnick LINZ;
The value of engagement: contaminated land risk assessment to address a Treaty of Waitangi settlement property affected by contamination - Danielle Trilford CFG;
Heritage archaeology and heritage management
Afternoon sessions
MfE work programme update
- The Ministry for the
Environment;
An overview of government priorities, and an update on the waste and resource efficiency work programme
Better together; collaboration and and engagement
- Terry Coe Auckland Council & Alzbeta Bouskova Houghton Ecogas;
Partnership for impact - Rebecca Harrington Auckland Council &
Carla Gee Ecomatters;
Engaging communities through creative collaboration
Shifting the dial with data
- Brody Gilroy WasteEd With Kate;
Advancing evaluation to prove behaviour change - Shawn Elise Tierney Sustainable Coastlines;
Introducing the litter intelligence programme - Zoe Yandell Tonkin + Taylor;
Data insights: NZ Kerbside collections
Te ao o te mātai matū- The world of chemistry
- Dave Bull HAIL Environmental;
Applied geodiversity: a tale of two mining areas - Julia Jaeger & Jonathon Angell Eurofins;
Unveiling air toxics analyses: safeguarding Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment through cutting-edge laboratory practices - Susie Humphrey Pattle Delamore Partners & Josh Girvin SLR Consulting;
Leachability of contaminated soils – implications for management and disposal
Day 3 - Wednesday, 29 May
Morning sessions
Plenary
- KEYNOTE Brad Olsen chief executive & principal economist;
How economic trends will impact businesses in 2024
Placing the future at the forefront
- Libby Chaplin Battery Stewardship
Council, Australia;
Australia's official B-Cycle battery stewardship scheme and its journey over the first two years of existence - Mark Hilton & Lisa Eve Eunomia;
Does waste to energy have a role in Aotearoa New Zealand? - Sue Coutts Zero Waste Network;
Playing whack-a-mole with incinerators
Kua hua te marama – Circular systems
- Laura Gemmell Eco Choice Aotearoa;
Procuring a sustainable future - Carole Smith WSP;
The benefits of waste management planning for a more circular economy - Valerie Bianchi Waikato Regional Council & Chris Purchas Tonkin + Taylor;
Circularising organics
Better together: Collaboration
- Adele Rose 3R Group;
Tyrewise – industry wide system change to tackle a problematic waste stream - Rob Langford The Packaging Forum;
Mandatory plastic product stewardship scheme update - Dominic Salmon 3R Group;
Battery Industry Group - stewarding large energy storage batteries - Daniel Yallop Re.Group;
Uncertainty on CRS – it’s not all doom and gloom
Te ao o ngā ture - The world of rules
- Samantha Iles & Sarah Ensoll SLR;
Interpreting waste related HAIL categories – G3, G5 or even I? - Anna Lukey SLR;
Risk-based industry specific guidelines – a review of information and selected assumptions - Dave Hanan GHC Consulting;
Taiko landfill - The perfect site
Afternoon sessions
Focus on food waste
- Rachel Glaiser Zero Waste Network; Every bite counts
- Sophie Wolland Love Food
Hate Waste NZ;
Our mission to reduce household food waste - Iain Lees-Galloway Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance;
Food rescue in the circular food economy - Jess Broun Kai Commitment;
Action and collaboration for industry food waste
Challenging the status quo
- Darren Tiddy & Alice Grace Morrison Low;
How to write an ambitious waste strategy when inflation holds you back - Eleanor Grant BECA;
Collective action to transition to a circular economy - Graceyn Cotter New Plymouth District Council & Kimberley Hope Tonkin + Taylor;
Empowering Taranaki to achieve zero waste
Where do all the textiles go?
- Nic Turner Mainstream Green & Matt Wiseman Collectors Anonymous;
It's in your hands - supporting local and making secondhand textiles the first choice - Bernadette Casey UsedFULLY;
Used to useful - textile circularity - Lola Liava’a Tonga & Stalini Naufahu Tonga Waste Authority;
Tonga's tightrope: the cost of givin
Some elephants in the room: PFA's and biosolids
- Lindsay Strachan Earthtech;
Treatment options for PFAS and POPs in future NZ - Dave Bull HAIL Environmental;
PFAS: The problem we always had - Rob Tinholt Watercare;
A plea to MfE: meet the elephant biosolids
Placing the future at the forefront
- Tekao Hermann & Anna Ainsworth Tonkin + Taylor;
Collaboration across the Pacific - national waste audits in the Cook Islands + Fiji - Matthew Walker Transpower;
Transpower waste plan and actions - Kelly McLean Aurecon;
The future of making
Day 3 - Thursday, 30 May
Snapshots
- Ali Kirkpatrick The Sustainability Trust;
Fill Good to feel good - Liam Prince Aotearoa Composters Network;
Growing a movement of SME community composters across Aotearoa - Mark Roberts Auckland Council;
The great skip dive: what skips have been hiding from us - Mia Salazer New Plymouth District Council;
Circular stationery - Nic Turner Mainstream Green & Shelley Wilson Waipā District Council;
Berms, worms and local produce - Steve Nicholls 3R Group;
The role of innovation in product stewardship - Stefan Borowy & Alice Grace Morrison Low;
Navigating a pathway for councils to achieve greater resource recovery through community champions - Trish Hurley Waitaki Resource Recovery Centre;
Recovery of people using the waste stream
Moving on up the waste hierarchy
- Andred Saker & Gaynor Muller Hutt City Council;
Landfill “diversion scrum” - Brigitte Sistig Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand;
The Repair Network Aotearoa - Carla van Walen Localised;
Zero Waste Hubs “A new approach to delivering a range of zero waste services” - Rob Wilson EcoCentral;
Returning returned goods back into circulation
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata — It’s the people, it’s the people, it’s the people
- Angus Bell Waste & Recycling Industry
Forum & Brent Sutton Safety Associates;
Enviro NZ’s enforceable undertaking and what’s been implemented since - Greg Dearsly First 4 Safety;
Cultural intelligence - an essential capability - Joan Jolly Morrison Low;
D for disaster - Darren de Klerk Beca;
Leadership through adversity
Te Ao o te Manawaroa – The world of resilience
- Claudia Waite Tonkin + Taylor &
Courtney Armstrong Auckland Council;
Understanding and responding to climate related impacts on closed landfills in the Auckland region - Siân Hodgkins Tonkin + Taylor & Barton Bauzon Auckland Council;
Building resilience into future management of legacy landfills
Te Ao o te Mōhio – The world of wisdom
- Isobel Stout Pattle Delamore Partners;
How biochar can save the world - Edward Cromwell Pattle Delamore Partners;
Site characterisation using directional drilling - Leena Khong Pattle Delamore Partners & Martin Robertson Z Energy;
Learnings from a long-term petroleum plume monitoring case study - Kathryn Halder Stantec;
Politics, the pondweed and the park – managing contaminants and reusing resources to create Te Pa Harakeke - Dave Bull Board champion & Tim Dee chair CLM Sector Group;
Closing words
Closing Plenary
- KEYNOTE: Dr Paul Smith Fixed First (formerly head of testing, Consumer NZ)
Product custodianship and the right to reuse –fixing our broken system
Creating a future where people, communities and nature in Aotearoa New Zealand thrive together
