6th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment

The International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment is organised every two years by the Wessex Institute of Technology in collaboration with other renown institutions. This sixth conference follows the success of previous meetings held in C?diz (2002), Rhodes (2004), Malta (2006), Granada (2008) and Tallinn (2010). Waste management is becoming one of the key problems of the modern world, an issue that is intensified by the volume and complexity of waste discarded by society’s domestic and industrial activities. Unfortunately, many of the practices adopted in the past were aimed at short-term solutions without sufficient regard or knowledge for long term implications on health, the environment or sustainability and this, in many cases, leads to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action. With our growing awareness of the detrimental environmental effects of current waste disposal, there is a significant onus of accountability for effective waste management