This Spring 2025 the SWANA Chapters of Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia will collectively hold a Regional Conference at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, between April 29 and May 1, 2025.  There will be informative technical sessions with continuing education opportunities, a vendor trade show and more activities for all to enjoy. 

At this time we are accepting presentation proposals so we can prepare our conference agenda.  

The deadline to submit presentation proposals is February 7, 2025.  

Click the link below if you would like to complete our online form and submit a presentation proposal:

https://gaswana.org/survey.php?id=9

 

We are hoping to receive more presentation proposals than usual for this conference so we can offer break-out session opportunities to this larger audience.  
 

Please help spread the word to those who you think may have a presentation or panel discussion in mind to share at this conference.  We would love to have you even consider submitting a presentation proposal whether it is your first time or if you've presented with us in the past.  To help generate some interest, below are presentation ideas that attendees from our last conference suggested to us they’d like to see:

Suggested presentation ideas from last conference's attendees (in no particular order):

Equipment rental/lease case studies; Indicators for slope stability issues; Integrity of final cover at closed landfills; Challenges of controlling leachate disposal costs; Machine control and Carlson software; Collection & transfer topics; Equipment maintenance topics; Artificial intelligence and landfill design; Environmental monitoring at landfills; Transfer station design; Recovering plastic waste; Emerging technologies on heavy equipment, GPS and landfill gas emissions mapping; Integration of AI in solid waste industry; Open round table discussion on challenges in solid waste industry; Public water treatment plants impact on solid waste industry; Landfill and equipment operation safety; Material recovery facilities; How recycling can be profitable; Status of landfills with 30+ years of post-closure; Examples of grants being successfully used;  Landfill compaction; More information for landfill operators; Compost collection; Compost marketing, product distribution and sales; Recovered materials processing facility automation; Driver/Equipment Operator panel discussion; Leachate seep repairs and troubleshooting; Economics of solid waste landfilling and material recovery; Automated versus human picking lines; Soil erosion and sedimentation control at solid waste facilities; Landfill gas to energy; Success stories on composting and waste diversion projects; New technologies that assist with site compliance; Regulatory updates from state and federal agencies; Disaster debris management; Special waste events (bulk item pickup, household hazardous waste, vegetation waste collection, scrap tire illegal dump site reclamation, etc.); Topics geared more towards landfill operator; Dealing with unruly customers in the public sector; Technical and operational challenges; Topics from consultants on projects they are working on; Alternate landfill final covers; Alternative fuel collection vehicles; Landfill construction and operations; Renewable natural gas; Leachate management at landfills; Research topics from college professors/students; Lessons learned from groundwater remediation and corrective action; Review of permitted alternate base liners and protective cover; Closure and post-closure challenges; Air quality and permitting. 

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Registration will be open in a few weeks!  Stay tuned for more details! 

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If you have any other questions about this upcoming conference, please send an email to program@gaswana.org or jimmyriggedservices@gmail.com.