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Get your ROCS off with AD!
Hilton National Hotel, Coventry
This is a Composting Association event: Food waste collection is being widely promoted as one of the priorities for local authorities in the drive to achieve their LATS targets. As a result, there is increased interest in Anaerobic Digestion (AD) as a prime technology for treating this waste stream.
Includes the strategic relevance of AD in the revised Waste Strategy and the Energy White Paper, outlets and quality standards for digestate, enhancing biogas yields and generating ROCs income, feedstocks and contamination, and the public acceptability of food waste collections.

Master Composter Schemes Seminar
- promoting home composting through volunteer schemes
Location: Bishops Wood Environmental Centre, Stourport, Worcestershire
Date: 16th October 2007
Aim: This event will discuss how to effectively promote home composting through volunteer schemes and how to support volunteers. The seminar will be useful for those who want to find out more about setting up a volunteer scheme as well as for people already running a scheme who wish to share ideas and best practice and follow up discussions from last years' event.
Download a flyer (.pdf 2MB) Further information: www.homecomposting.org.uk.

6th Annual Scottish Waste Management Conference
Glasgow
The Conference, entitled “20/20 Vision for Sustainable Resource Management”, will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 October 2007.
The range of topics will explore the emerging policy areas of waste and resource management and climate change resulting in a programme ranging from material markets to carbon and zero waste. The conference will also be looking towards the 2020 horizon and how we might tackle municipal, commercial and industrial waste streams including waste prevention. For more details about the Conference please visit http://www.eventful-scotland.org.uk
CRNS Bursary
Please find attached a bursary application form. The purpose of the bursary is to assist members with the costs of attendance at the Conference and to ensure that there is a good level of representation from the community recycling sector. Full and Fledgling members are eligible to apply for a bursary. For more information please see the attached bursary application form. Organisations can apply to send a maximum of 2 delegates. The deadline for applications to the bursary scheme is midday on Tuesday 18 September 2007.
For members who are not eligible for the bursary you can receive an early bird discount if you book your place by Friday 31 August 2007.
Eventful Scotland Annual Awards
The six Award categories for 2007 are:
Award for Environmental Innovation
Award for Best Waste Minimisation Initiative
Award for Best Community Waste Initiative
Award for Best Partnership
Award for Excellence in Resource Management Practices
Award of the Year - Waste Prevention in the Retail Sector
Community recycling sector winners last year included LEEP Recycling Ltd (Best Partnership) and Edinburgh Furniture Initiative (Best Community Waste Initiative).
You can submit nominations online at http://www.eventful-scotland.org.uk/2awards2007.htm

CYLCH 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Creating Sustainable Communities Through Recycling
Always a ‘must do’ in the calendar of anyone in the recycling sector in Wales, Cylch’s 10th anniversary conference promises to be even more exciting and controversial than normal and will incite debate that may help carve the future of the sector in the next ten years.
For more details see the Cylch website: www.cylch.org/cylch-conference.html

Biowaste and the Carbon Economy
International Centre, Telford
The Composting Association Annual Conference: Action on climate change will create significant business opportunities as new markets are created in low-carbon energy technologies and other low-carbon goods and services. The sooner we learn more about the nature of the changes needed to take advantage of these opportunities, the better the UK's waste management industry can deliver its key role as secondary resource transformer and play an important part in the renewable energy economy.
The Composting Association's annual conference has been designed to help delegates to meet these challenges and to help them take a leading role in the development of the carbon economy.

ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINERS COURSES - Various locations
ETN (Environmental trainers network) is run by BTCV and offers a range of courses around the UK on mostly land-based topics.
Download an information leaflet (word doc. 351KB)

CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WASTES MANAGEMENT COURSES - Various locations
CIWM is a professional body offering events, education & training.
For more information about forthcoming events & courses see thier website. http://www.ciwm.co.uk/