Rubbish in front of Mountain

PROGRAM
ELECTRONICS < > ECOLOGIES #2 WASTE WORKSHOP
MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2023

8:30

Arrive / Event Registration
Peter Johnson Building, University of Technology Sydney

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Melissa Gregg, RMIT University, Professor Anna Cristina Pertierra, UTS & Professor Heather Horst, WSU

9:15 – 9:45

Global markets for Ewaste and second hand electronics
Adam Minter, Bloomberg journalist in conversation with Melissa Gregg, RMIT University

9:45 – 10:30

The Electronics Reuse Industry
Sarah Kim, EReuse Services
Nicole Stevens, Moorup

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Break

11:00 – 11:30

Breaking up with our products: encouraging electronics product dis-attachment to enable secondary uses
Carrie Snyder, More than Sustainability

11:30 – 12:15

‘No Matter:’ Shifts in modes of Possessing and so Disposing of Digital Things
Professor Cameron Tonkinwise, UTS

12:15 – 1:30

Lunch + UTS Material Ecologies Design Lab (MEDL) Tour

1:30 – 2:15

Generating Reuse Value
Professor Gay Hawkins, Western Sydney University in conversation with Melissa Gregg, RMIT

2:15 – 2:40

From Innovation to Inventory
Thomas Lee + Rachael Wakefield-Rann, UTS

2:40 – 3:00

Afternoon Break

3:00 – 3:20

Australian Product Stewardship Survey & Database 
Simran Talwar, UTS
Nick Florin, UTS

3:20 – 4:00

Digital Repurposing in Universities
Lorenzo Angeli, University of Trento, Italy
Mela Bettega, Nova University of Lisbon
Raul Masu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

4:00

Industry approaches & future collaborations 
Melissa Gregg, RMIT University