Dear Colleagues/Friends, 

Further to the great success of the International Conference on Solid Waste 2011 and 2013, we are glad to inform you that Sino Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment, Hong Kong Baptist University is going to organize another conference, " International Conference on Solid Waste 2015: Knowledge Transfer for Sustainable Resource Management" which will be held on 20-23 May 2015 in Hong Kong. Please kindly visithttps://arcpe.hkbu.edu.hk/conf2015/ for details.  You are cordially invited to join us! 
 
To thank for your support and participation of our last conference, we are pleased to offer you a 20% discount on the registration fee for our conference in 2015. Please seize this chance to register!

Call for Abstract

You are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentation, the deadline for submission is 30 November, 2014.

We will offer two awards for outstanding presenters: 
1. International Young Waste Researcher Award 
A US$2,000 cash with free registration will be awarded to young researchers who are aged under 35 for submitting quality papers. A judge panel will select the awardee base on their submitted research achievement, a research statement, CVs and his submitted paper. 
  

2. Best Poster Award 
Since we may not be able to accommodate all presenters with oral presentation, we will have the poster sessions to encourage young researchers to present their work to their peers. To encourage the participation, three ‘Best Poster Award’ of US$300 each will be awarded to the awardees.

Financial Aid

Partial and Full Financial Aid in the form of registration and accommodation reimbursement will be available for selected participants, who are going to submit an abstract by 30 November, 2014 and register for the conference. Priority will be given to those who are going to present a paper, attend the conference, coming from developing countries and/or having a student status. All LOCAL POSTGRADUATES presenting a paper at the conference will have their registration fee waived.

Interested parties can apply through the Conference Secretariat: (icswhk@hkbu.edu.hk).

Journal publication 
All accepted abstracts and papers will be published in conference proceedings. Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of SCI-listed journals including “Bioresource Technology” and “Environmental Technology”. 
Please kindly visit our Conference website at http://arcpe.hkbu.edu.hk/conf2015 for more details. You may also wish to check out more details of our last conference at http://arcpe.hkbu.edu.hk/conf2013.