Electronic Scrap is focus of RECCON Event

Representatives from industry, government and academic institutions from around the world will assemble in Morgantown, W. Va., in late November for a conference on electronic scrap recycling.

The Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Morgantown will be the site of a conference known as “RECCON ’05: Global Electronics Recycling Solutions,” from November 28 to 30.

According to its organizers, “The conference is a forum for sharing information, ideas, and innovative solutions to the challenges facing the electronics recycling community throughout the world.

Topics addressed will include end-of-life electronics trade relations between the United States and China; the globalization of industry; economic development in North America; and legislative issues and ideas.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University (WVU) is acting as the host of the RECCON event. “WVU is honored to have the opportunity to host RECCON ’05,” says David. C. Hardesty Jr., President of the university. “This conference follows the very successful RECCON ’03 International Conference on Recycling Information Exchange and Industrial Practices held in Bilbao, Spain.”

West Virginia University is a partner with the Polymer Alliance Zone of West Virginia, through the MARCEE project (Mid-Atlantic Recycling Center for End-of-Life Electronics), working to establish a regional model for end-of-life electronics recycling

The keynote speaker for the RECCON ’05 conference is William McDonough, founding partner of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, a design firm that describes itself as practicing ecologically, socially and economically viable architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad.

Those seeking additional information or wishing to register can visit the RECCON ’05 Web site at www.wvu.edu/~RECCON05/.