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MSW Editor's Blog

June 15th, 2009 9:21am PST

Rabbit from the Hat: Waste Expo 2009

Posted By John Trotti Comments

While there are some who will disagree, most of the people—exhibitors and attendees alike—with whom I spoke at this year’s event in Las Vegas felt that the show outdid their expectations. Despite the economy and travel difficulties, the show floor was alive with exhibits and good volumes of traffic. The consensus among many of the exhibitors was that while the number of visitors to their booths may have been down from recent years, the quality was top notch…another way of saying that those who were there came to do business.

Although I cannot pretend to be a great fan of Las Vegas as a destination, there is no doubt in my mind that it’s a great venue for the show…a belief rooted in conversations with several public-sector attendees who, in the absence of funding from their jurisdictions, paid their own way because of the city’s many attractions.

While environmental stewardship may have been the show’s stated theme, technology as the key to increased efficiency and productivity seemed to me to be the underlying focus of the bulk of the attendees.

I’d very much like to hear from those of you who were at the show to find out what your impressions were and what caught your attention.

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