I’ve been lucky enough to attend every edition of the AIEN’s Ballarat conference, the Australian Waste to Energy Forum. Over the past four years it has grown to being one of the largest conferences of it’s kind in Australia.
Delegates from across Australia and beyond converged on the Mercure Ballarat conference centre to discuss the state of the waste to energy industry and take steps to move towards an increasingly circular economy.
Massive thanks to the team at AIEN for putting together another excellent event and I hope to see everyone at the 2020 edition!
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The full gallery from the event is available here.