Toronto Event Focuses on Electronics, Batteries

The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto will serve as the site of an upcoming recycling conference focusing on electronics and batteries.

Switzerland-based ICM is the organizer of Electronics & Battery Recycling ’08, taking place June 4-5 at the downtown Toronto venue.

Among the topics and speakers at the two-day event:

• Cindy Coutts of Sims Recycling Solutions will moderate a panel entitled, “Challenges in the Worldwide Electronics & Battery Recycling Business.” The panel includes Douglas Smith of Sony Electronics Inc.; Alfred Hambsch of GEEP Inc.; Mark Tomaszewski of battery recycler Inmetco Inc.; Eric Harris of ISRI; Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Jill Ledger of SAFT in France; and John Gerretsen, Canada’s Minister of the Environment, has been invited.

• “How do OEMs Close the Recycling Loop?” features speakers from the Recycling Council of Ontario, Hewlett-Packard, Pitney Bowes, the ESPC program in Canada and Canon Canada Ltd.

• On the topic of battery recycling, speakers include Steve Heddle of Inmetco Inc.; Linda Biagioni of Black & Decker Corp.; and Paul Berto of Home Depot.

• Advances in electronics recycling technology will be a topic addressed by Mike Biddle of MBA Polymers Inc.; Wolfgang Bose of MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH; Alfred Hambsch of GEEP Inc.; and Patrick Lampert of RUAG of Switzerland.

More information on the conference can be found on the Web at http://www.icm.ch/index_ebr_08.htm.