Free Visit to RWM Promises to Make Your Waste Work Harder

Whether you are looking for a waste-to energy solution or want to find out what grants and funding might be available to help you to grow your recycling business, the Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM 10) taking place at the NEC, Birmingham from 14 to 16 September can help you to turn waste problems into resource opportunities.

Bigger than ever before, the three-day show features an indoor and outdoor exhibition of more than 500 companies and organisations exhibiting and demonstrating the latest technologies and recycling solutions. Entry is free and also gives visitors access to over 40 seminar sessions offering invaluable legislative and financial advice and first-hand case studies of successful public and private sector projects.

The programme in the Local Authority Seminar Theatre (sponsored by SCA Recycling and Bywaters) will cover food waste collection, recycling solutions for flats and reveal how councils are tackling commercial and industrial waste. In the Business Seminar Theatre a full day will be dedicated to carbon and cost reduction through minimising construction waste, and retailers can find out how packaging design and procurement can help them to achieve zero waste without sacrificing profits. Meanwhile energy from waste, wastewater reuse and carbon efficiency will be tackled in the Energy & Water Theatre (sponsored by Motherwell Bridge). Expert speakers have already been confirmed from the London Waste & Recycling Board, WRAP, Glenigan, Arup and the BREW Centre for Local Authorities among others.

New features for 2010 include the Envirolink Pavilion which will showcase a range of companies from the region's recycling and waste sector. Worth £1,064 million, this sub sector includes facility operators, service providers, technology designers, builders and engineers; as well as a growing range of companies developing products containing recycled content.

Visitors can register online now for free fast track entry to RWM 10 and take advantage of the MyRWM Show Planner, a simple online tool which creates a personalised floorplan of relevant exhibitors.

Gerry Sherwood, event director, RWM, said: "Green industries are thriving while economic and legislative pressures have made waste, energy and resource management more relevant than ever before. As a result our audience broadens every year. Last year's event attracted almost 10,000 visitors from across the public and private sector and hundreds have already registered for this year including representatives from county and city councils, Royal Mail, Morrisons, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, United Utilities and other blue chip companies. With an expanded exhibition floor, a number of new features and a great choice of free seminar programmes, we have made sure that a visit to RWM will offer you contacts, solutions, ideas and advice, whatever industry you work in."