ICSW 2012 - The 27th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

The 27th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
March 11 - 14, 2012

Call For Papers

http://www2.widener.edu/~sxw0004/call.html

Founder: Iraj Zandi, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Chair: Ronald L. Mersky, Widener University, USA

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

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

Landfill topics

Recycling

Economics

Waste reduction

Energy recovery and thermal treatment

Composting and biological treatment

Policy

Regulations

EU directives

Facility siting

Public involvement

Education

Household hazardous wastes

Waste composition studies

Chemical and biochemical treatment

Contaminated sites

Municipal wastes

Industrial wastes

Mining and mineral wastes

Medical wastes

Scrap tires

Agricultural wastes

Research topics

Modeling

Utilization of waste materials

Case studies

Solid waste dust

Innovative technologies

Waste collection

Waste generation studies

Integrated waste management

Equipment

Sludge

Ash

Use of waste materials in construction

Environmental impacts

Construction and demolition wastes

Geotechnical topics

Liners, caps, gas and leachate

Environmental equity

Carbon emissions reduction

All other related topics

Scientific Committee:

Haluk Akgun, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Giuseppe Bonifazi, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Cristina Braga, Parana Federal University, Brasil
Shoou-Yuh Chang, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
Toru Furuichi, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kasturi Gadgil, I.I.T. Delhi, India
Noah Galil, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Ilan Nissim, Ministry of the Environmental Protection, Israel
Sara Ojeda-Benitez, Autonomous University of Baja California Engineering Institute, Mexico
Chukwu Onu, Southern University and A & M College, USA
Paul S. Phillips, University College Northampton, UK
Eva Pongracz, University of Oulu, Finland
Jason Scott, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Jerry Uhuo, National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria
Bruce G. Wilson, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Anita Zavodska, Barry University, USA