What kind of waste and recycling subjects are you able to be taught extra about in 2025? The trade is navigating quite a lot of challenges and alternatives, from PFAS and EPR to waste assortment expertise and disposal capability. Business organizations are planning a plethora of in-person occasions for 2025 to debate might of these traits.
To date, Waste Dive is monitoring occasions with a broad scope, like WasteExpo and SWANA’s newly named annual convention RCon, which magnetize massive audiences with their wide selection of subjects. However there are a selection of focused occasions additionally deliberate for 2025, together with these overlaying natural waste disposal, digital waste options, recycling expertise and extra.
Listed here are among the notable waste administration conferences deliberate for the 12 months. Our listing consists of most main nationwide or regional occasions, and we’ll plan to replace particulars on the occasions we’ve confirmed as they turn out to be obtainable. We gained’t be capable to accommodate each native convention, however would nonetheless love to listen to about your upcoming occasion. Attain out at waste.dive.editors@industrydive.com.
Waste and recycling conferences in 2025
Compost 2025
Jan. 27-30
Phoenix Conference Heart, Phoenix
This long-running organics occasion is organized by the trade group U.S. Composting Council. The theme for this occasion is “Thirsty for Options,” and can characteristic discussions of meals waste, compost expertise and product advertising and marketing, in addition to a tour of a number of Arizona amenities.
EREF Summit on Landfill Emissions
March 4-5
Embassy Suites Brier Creek, Raleigh, North Carolina
This occasion from the Environmental Analysis & Schooling Basis goals to collect “teachers, trade professionals, and authorities personnel to debate modern approaches to measuring and modeling methane emissions at stable waste administration amenities.”
C&D World Convention & Exhibition
March 11-14
Renaissance Resort, Addison, Texas
That is the Development & Demolition Recycling Affiliation’s annual convention. It brings collectively stakeholders within the C&D recycling trade to debate traits and discover rising applied sciences
Plastics Recycling Convention
March 24–26
Gaylord Nationwide Resort & Conference Heart, Nationwide Harbor, Maryland
This convention hosted by the Affiliation of Plastics Recyclers options discussions on the markets and insurance policies affecting quite a lot of supplies, together with post-consumer resin, movie and different merchandise.
Biogas Americas
April 27-30
Colorado Conference Heart, Denver
Business group American Biogas Council organizes this convention, which it touts as the biggest in North America. The occasion has beforehand featured occasions on coverage, feedstocks and applied sciences like anaerobic digestion.
WasteExpo
Might 6-8
Las Vegas Conference Heart, Las Vegas
This annual occasion is attended by greater than 14,000 folks, making it one of many trade’s largest. It’s organized by the Nationwide Waste & Recycling Affiliation and Waste360 and options co-located occasions on a spread of subjects, together with funding traits, organics recycling and healthcare waste.
ReMA2025 Conference & Exposition
Might 12-15
San Diego Conference Heart, San Diego
The annual conference for the Recycled Materials Affiliation, previously the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries, brings collectively scrap recyclers managing quite a lot of commodities to debate international financial, coverage and expertise traits.
U.S. Product Stewardship Discussion board
June 3-4
Westin Chicago North Shore, Chicago
This occasion is organized by the Product Stewardship Institute and marks the group’s twenty fifth anniversary. It goals to convene “leaders from personal trade, state, native and tribal governments, educational establishments and environmental organizations” to debate prolonged producer duty subjects.
Battery and Crucial Metals Recycling Convention
June 9-10
Loews Vanderbilt Resort, Nashville, Tennessee
Supported by ReMA and arranged by Recycling As we speak, this convention grapples with vital minerals, disposal hazards, recyclability and different related points for the sector.
ReFED Meals Waste Options Summit
June 23-25
Hyatt Regency Seattle, Seattle
This summit brings collectively stakeholders from throughout the meals provide chain to debate options to meals waste, together with alternatives for composting and anaerobic digestion. The summit is organized by nonprofit ReFED.
Useful resource Recycling Convention
August 4-6
Hilton Denver, Denver
This convention brings collectively leaders from the private and non-private sector to debate recycling traits throughout the worth chain from feedstocks to finish markets.
Deconstruction + Reuse Convention 2025
Aug. 4-6
The Landmark Heart, Saint Paul, Minnesota
This convention is hosted yearly by the nonprofit Construct Reuse, which promotes the restoration, reuse, and recycling of constructing supplies. This 12 months’s occasion is themed: “Bridging the Reuse Hole: From Promise to Apply.”
BPI Summit
Sept. 16-18
Location TBD
The Biodegradable Merchandise Institute goals to convene attendees concerned in zero waste packages, assortment and hauling, composting operations, product and materials improvement and coverage to debate concepts for organics waste diversion, together with for compostable merchandise and packaging.
Paper & Plastics Recycling Convention
Oct. 15-16
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
Supported by ReMA and arranged by Recycling As we speak, this convention is the longest-running in its trade. Count on discussions of EPR, MRFs, commodity markets and extra.
Enterprise of Biogas
Oct. 21-23
4 Seasons Resort, St. Louis, Missouri
This American Biogas Council occasion is marketed for mission builders and traders all for finest practices for each biogas manufacturing and profitability.
E-Scrap Convention
Oct. 27-29
Gaylord Texan Resort & Conference Heart, Grapevine, Texas
The E-Scrap Convention, produced by Useful resource Recycling, options occasions and dialogue of the electronics recycling trade. Prior iterations have included audio system from personal firms and regulators.
RCon
Nov. 12-15
Columbus, Ohio
This convention, mixed the occasions beforehand generally known as Wastecon and SOAR, is the Stable Waste Affiliation of North America’s premier gathering. SWANA stated the brand new occasion “will focus on advancing the understanding of waste as a useful resource, and it is going to be the go-to platform for cutting-edge discussions, applied sciences, and practices.”
Company Development Convention
Nov. 12-13
Fairmont Chicago Millenium Park, Chicago
This convention, produced by Waste As we speak occasions, takes a take a look at the enterprise panorama inside the environmental companies sector. Discussions usually cowl each potential sources of capital and potential progress alternatives for traders.
Editor’s word: This story has been up to date to mirror the brand new identify of SWANA’s annual convention.
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