Call for Abstracts
Thank you for your interest in submitting an abstract for presentation at the Waste 2025 Conference. The program will focus on practical outcomes and includes a combination of keynote addresses, case studies, streamed sessions, workshops and panel discussions.
If you would like to showcase your achievements, you are invited to submit an abstract for consideration by the conference committee.
Submissions will be accepted from Monday 4 November 2024 and will close on Wednesday 18 December 2024.
The first round of presenter invitations will be issued late February 2025 and the second round will be sent early March 2025. All abstracts must be submitted on the template provided and submitted online by the due date.
The topics for Waste 2025 include:
- Aboriginal community waste management
- Circular economy
- Collections
- Container deposit schemes
- Disaster waste management
- Economics
- Education
- Energy from waste
- Hazardous waste
- Infrastructure & planning
- Innovative projects
- Landfill & facility management
- Legislation, regulations & levies
- Litter & illegal dumping
- National, state and local issues
- Organics
- Plastics
- Problem waste
- Procurement, tenders and contracts
- Product stewardship & extended producer responsibility
- Project planning
- Proposed panel discussion
- Regional issues
- Resource recovery
- Social enterprise
- Strategic waste planning & policy
- Technology in waste management
- Waste projects
- Other
Abstract submission and presenter terms and conditions
- All abstracts must be submitted on the template provided.
- A corporate portrait photograph must be supplied at the time of submission. For successful abstracts, this will be used on the conference website and app and any other marketing collateral deemed appropriate by the conference organisers
- A 150 word bio must be provided at the time of submission. For successful abstracts, this will be published on the conference website, app and be used for chairpersons’ introductions during the conference
- You can update your abstract any time prior to the closing date (18 December 2024) by logging in to the submissions portal with your username and password
- All abstracts received will be passed onto the program development committee for review and will be kept confidential in nature
- The program development committee is comprised of government, industry and association representatives
- The committee will be reviewing abstracts between mid January and mid February 2025. A final decision will be made late February 2025 and invitations will then be issued
- The successful submissions will form the basis of the conference program and will be asked to present face to face in Coffs Harbour. All presentations will be broadcast live to an online audience. Successful applicants will be notified late February 2025
- If accepted for the conference program, your abstract will be published on the conference website and/or conference app
- Presenters will have the opportunity to update their abstract after they have been accepted for the conference program
- All presenters accepted for an individual presentation at the conference and attending for the full 3 days will be entitled to a one off $450 discount.
- All presenters attending for the day of their presentation only, will be entitled to register free of charge
- Co-presentations will not be considered
- Confirmed presenters will be required to register for the conference and pay the relevant registration fees if applicable
- PowerPoint presentations will be required 2 weeks prior to the conference
- Non-conforming abstract submissions may not be considered