Brownfield site developers are invited to a breakfast at the University of Greenwich to meet companies and scientists with techniques to remediate contaminated land in line with EU Landfill Directive
The business breakfast on Wednesday 26 April 2006, will start with a critical assessment of current technologies for handling contaminated land by independent consultant Mike Summersgill.
Summersgill's talk will be followed by presentations and displays of current and developing techniques of soil remediation by university scientists as well as specialists from companies, including Ecologia and Edge.
The breakfast meeting is being staged by the University of Greenwich business innovation hubs, Business Link Kent and Kent Sustainable Business Partnership.
Deborah Rees, business fellow for environmental sciences at the University of Greenwich at Medway, says: "In the past, many developers relied on removing potentially contaminated soil from sites.
"Now legislative constraints mean that it is economically much better to remediate the soil on site and there are a growing number of technologies available to handle the wide range of possible contaminants.
"We are aiming to give owners and developers of brown-field sites a chance to learn more about the types of remediation now available and an opportunity to quiz the technologists about the problems they currently face in meeting the new regulations".
The breakfast meeting will run from 7.30am to 10am in the Ward Room, Pembroke Building, the University of Greenwich at Medway, at Chatham Maritime, on Wednesday 26 April 2006.
Delegate places, priced £20, are available.
Registration will close on 19 April 2006.
