Key community issues in hazardous waste management.

Conference held at the University of Melbourne 19-21 November 1989

The U.S. approach / Joel Hirschhorn -- The situation in Europe / Teo Wams -- Waste management and sustainable development / Peter Brotherton -- Waste management guidelines for managers of chemical manufacturing facilities / Trevor Sweeny -- Generation and control of hazardous waste in the Pacific Basin / Richard Cirillo -- The evolution of a hazardous management policy for New Zealand / Jonathan Fletcher -- The situation in Victoria / Brian Robinson -- New directions for Waste Management Authority / John Cook -- Current practices and future plans in South Australia / Max Harvey -- The situation in Western Australia / Peter Browne-Cooper -- The situation in Queensland; The situation in Tasmania / John McCambridge -- Between burn-off pit and incinerator / Peter Drygala -- Hazardous waste management in Australian Capital Territory / Ken Holmes -- Public involvement in hazardous waste management in Europe / Teo Wams -- A site is the answer! But what was the question? / Don Owen -- Current challenges in health risk assessment: risk communication / Kathryn Kelly -- How can I dispose of some bottles? / Don Roberts -- Management of medical waste in Victoria / Jack Chiodo -- Current practices and future directions in medical waste disposal in the U.S. / David Nelson and Stefanie Colvin -- Waste minimisation in Victoria, policy and future / Rob Joy -- Waste minimisation - the Dow experience / Judy Castledine -- Minimisation efforts in the U.S. / Joel Hirschhorn -- Is the U.S. being successful in the clean-up of hazardous waste sites? / Joel Hirschhorn -- Contaminated sites - what are they? Issues concerning restoration and management / Harley Wright -- Toxicology and incident management implications of Australia's "Love Canal": lessons learned from the Kingston site / John Davis and Kathryn Kelly -- Emerging technologies for contaminated site clean-up / Peter Nadebaum and R. Wolfe -- Outline of the community consultation process / Anthony Thomas -- Destruction of organochlorine wastes by the sydox process / Jim Beattie, Robert Kaziro and Peter Lay -- Emerging technologies for hazardous waste disposal, and future directions in Australia / Stephen Moore -- Industrial site decommissioning - the Aeris model / T. L. Bulman -- Environmental risk assessment as a guide for rehabilitation of contaminated industrial land / R. J. Burden, H. C. Boyd and P. J. Riddell -- An approach to setting site-specific rehabilitation standards / Jonathan Crockett and Harry Grynberg -- Progress in liquid industrial waste management in Victoria / Geoff Vincent -- The new Aqueous Waste Treatment Plant in N.S.W. - operating experiences / Errol Samuel -- Development and operation of a liquid waste treatment plant in south Dandenong / Craig Hudson -- The Singapore experience - operation of commercial waste treatment facility / Ishar Singh Gill and Tan Poh Eng -- Mercury in the freshwater environment - a legacy of our gold mining past / David Tiller -- Cadmium transport in soil - mathematical models and experiments / S. Vigneswaran and M. Manivasakan -- Accepting criteria for site remediation - policy and practice / Nick Withers -- Industry participation in policy development - a better end result / Geoff Angus -- Community involvement makes it happen / Peter Christoff -- Engineering and hazardous waste management: why should we care about future generations? / A. S. Gunn