Äàòà ïóáëèêàöèè  20 ìàÿ 2005 ãîäà.
Conference on "Waste management systems and environment protection at mining, chemical and metallurgy enterprises in Kazakhstan" (21 September).
Main Topics of the Conference:
- Forming of effective waste management system at enterprises
- Environmental and economic aspects of waste management. Development of market-based mechanism
- Crediting and investment attraction mechanisms for environmental projects
- Environmental pollution prevention and wastes minimization
- Industrial wastes:  utilisation, storage and location
- Air and exhaust gas treatment
- Wastes processing technologies (tires, waste oil regeneration, scrap metal, sludge, soil purification from oil etc.) 
- Usage of industrial wastes as an alternative fuel/energy source
- Services in the field of industrial waste treatment
Round table on environment in Kazkhstani cities (22 September).
Main Topics of the Round table:
- Cooperation between city authorities and commercial entities in waste management
- Setting-up and development of a municipal system for centralised collection, processing, and neutralisation of industrial waste, selective collection of secondary raw materials in residential areas of the city
- Legal and sanitary aspects of waste management 
- Environmental and economic aspects of waste management.  Development of market-based mechanisms
- Coordination of activities of enterprises specialising or providing services in the field of waste treatment
- Management of waste generated by medical institutions
- Recycling and secondary use of package and packing
- Waste oil regeneration 
- Biomass energy (waste generated by the agro-industrial complex, industrial enterprises, and municipal services)
- Solid waste grounds: problems of organization and exploiting
- Wastewater treatment.  Utilisation of silt sediments and organic waste