International Expert on Waste Coming to Perth

Feb 10 2011 18:30

International Incinerator Expert, Dr Paul Connett visits WA.


Where: Conservation Council WA


When:  Thursday February 10, 6.30pm


Dr. Paul Connett is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College who is visiting Perth at the invitation of the Alliance for a Clean Environment WA.


Since 1983 he taught chemistry at St.Lawrence University in Canton, NY, where he specialised in Environmental
Chemistry and Toxicology. Over the past 25 years his research on waste management has taken him to 49 states in the US, and 54 other countries, where he has given over 2000 public presentations.


Ralph Nader said of Paul Connett, "He is the only person I know who can make waste interesting.”


In January and May, 2010, Paul Connett gave invited presentations on Zero Waste for Sustainability to the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in NYC.


In October 2010, he gave a presentation on the same subject before the agriculture committee of the European Parliament and in November to a meeting held in the UK's House of Commons.