RCRE successfully holds international conference on waste management

The 11^th International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials (WASCON2023) was successfully held 13–16 December 2023 at PolyU. The conference was jointly organised by the Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality (RCRE), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of PolyU, and the International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials (ISCOWA).

Under the theme of "Innovative Valorization of Alternative Materials and Waste towards Circular Construction”, the conference brought together about 300 participants from academia, industry, and the public sector around the world. The conference included over 160 paper presentations on the latest developments in the recycling of wastes to produce sustainable construction materials.