Defra's Waste Strategy for England, 2007 envisages a shared responsibility for the management of our waste and resources. Innovation and research that may contribute to the implementation of this Strategy will be the focus of this meeting. It will be a two day event where the aim will be to cover the following broad themes:

• encouraging waste prevention
  
• integrated waste management
  
• development of waste management policies
  
• resource flow studies
  
• decision support tools
  
• developments in sustainable landfill management
  
• characterisation and monitoring of waste streams
  
• encouraging resource recovery
  
• public involvement and consumer behaviour
  
• impacts of consumption and production
  
• markets and end-uses for secondary materials
  
• biowaste management
  
• emerging technologies
  
• thermal and biological waste management
  
• performance of waste treatment/disposal processes
  
• risk assessment and management