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Wasteminz Conference + Expo 2016 TSB Bank Arena, Wellington 17-20.10.16 WasteMINZ Conference + Expo 2016 TSB Bank Arena, Wellington 17-20.10.16 Too Good to Waste builds upon our recent work on food waste, most notably through our Love Food Hate Waste campaign. This work has shown us that food waste is a major issue in New Zealand. Every time we throw out food – our bread crusts or last night’s leftovers – it adds up. The same can be said of the many waste streams we all encounter on a daily basis. It might seem like just a few plastic bottles here and a box of polystyrene there, but all of this ‘waste’ has taken huge amounts of resources to produce. Should we really be wasting it? Surely we can do better? Let’s explore how, through collective action, we can do a better job. We firmly believe that waste is an action, rather than a thing. It’s only waste if we make it so. GALA DINNER MC FEATURED SPEAKERS & ENTERTAINMENT MICHELE A’COURT ALLIE MOONEY JONATHAN BLOOM Winner of “Comedienne of the Decade” at the As a people interpreter, author and the winner Jonathan writes about why we waste food, 2010 NZ Comedy Awards, Michèle is a stand-up of many prestigious speaking awards, Allie why it matters and what we can do about it. comedian and writer. She has been on New brings an informative, humorous and fun He is an author and journalist whose work Zealand TV screens since 1987 and still turns up packed style to her talks. You will come away has appeared in The New York Times, The all over the place. She talks a lot – sometimes from this session with a very effective but Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He on radio and TV, sometimes in pubs and clubs. simple tool that will change the way you see began researching food waste in 2005 while others, and wished many years ago that you volunteering at DC Central Kitchen and this had learned how to “Press the Right Buttons”, work led him to publish American Wasteland: thus avoiding people challenges. How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It) in 2010. t +64 9 476 7162 PO Box 305426, Triton Plaza, North Shore 0757 cj@wasteminz.org.nz Unit 2, 5 Orbit Drive, Rosedale 0632, New Zealand www.wasteminz.org.nz JULIAN CRIBB RON ALEXANDER DAVE WILD WALLACE CHAPMAN Julian is an Australian author Ron is one of the United States’ Dave is a futurist with Smith & Wallace is a well-known radio and science communicator. His most experienced and well-known Wild – an independent strategy and television host. For the last career includes appointments as compost and organics recycling and innovation consultancy two and half years Wallace has newspaper editor and scientific marketing consultants. He has that helps leaders and teams presented Sunday Mornings on editor for The Australian, and over 30 years of experience achieve more through greater Radio New Zealand National, the Director of National Awareness for in product marketing, market imagination and faster action. He highest rating weekend radio show CSIRO. His internationally-acclaimed research and planning, and facilitates strategy sessions and in NZ. Since 2008 he has hosted the book, The Coming Famine (2010) product development. He also runs innovation workshops for ‘pub politics’ show Back Benches, explored the question of how we can possesses extensive practical clients including The Warehouse, debating with MPs at ‘The Back feed 10 billion humans this century. experience in the production and Landcorp and New Zealand Trade & Bencher’ in Wellington before a His book, Poisoned Planet (2014) marketing of compost (and related Enterprise. live audience. Back Benches has looks at the contamination of the products). been described as the ‘Top Gear of Earth system and humanity by man- Politics’ by The NZ Herald. made chemicals. STEVE WRAGG DR ALBERT JUHASZ RACHEL DEVINE GEOFF SIMMONS Steve is a Senior Associate with Albert is an Associate Research Rachel is a partner at Minter Geoff is an economist working Kensington Swan and has almost 15 Professor within the Future Ellison Rudd Watts and leads their for the Morgan Foundation – an years’ experience practising in the Industries Institute at the environment and planning team. independent foundation which fields of employment and health and University of South Australia, With 20 years’ experience, Rachel aims to stimulate debate on the safety law in the United Kingdom Adelaide. With over 20 years’ specialises in providing advice on important issues facing New and New Zealand. He has worked research experience, Albert is all aspects of environmental and Zealand. Geoff graduated from with a number of New Zealand’s internationally recognised for resource management law for Auckland University with an Honours largest organisations to help them his innovative, cross disciplinary private and public sector clients – degree in Economics. He has meet the requirements of the new research on the refinement of from design through to approval, over ten years’ experience as an regime and to understand how best human health exposure through implementation and operation. economist working on tricky public to identify and respond to the health the assessment of contaminant policy issues for NZ Treasury and as and safety risks. bioavailability-bioaccessibility. a manager in the UK civil service. He has co-authored four books alongside Gareth Morgan covering topics such as health, Antarctica and food. SUPER SAVER EARLYBIRD LAST MINUTE REGISTRATION COSTS register & pay register & pay before registration from before 31.08.16 30.09.16 01.10.16 Three day registration 18, 19, 20 October (includes gala dinner) $1250 $1500 $1650 One day - Tuesday 18 October $495 $595 $655 One day - Wednesday 19 October $495 $595 $655 One day - Thursday 20 October $350 $420 $465 Gala dinner only - Wednesday 19 October (included in three day registration) $175 $175 $175 TA Forum - Monday 17 October $60 $70 $75 Composting Workshop - Monday 17 October $350 $420 $465 Composting Workshop - Monday 17 October (with main conference) $150 $180 $200 PRICES EXCLUDE GST The prices stated are available exclusively to WasteMINZ members. Non-members attract an additional 50% loading..
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