CESG aims to bring together Asia’s environmental sector

Organizers of the 2024 CleanEnviro Summit Singapore (CESG) event June 17-21 have selected the waste and recycling sector as one of three core industries that will serve as foundations for the conference’s programming and exhibit space.

At a March news conference designed to launch next year’s event effort, managing director of the 2024 version of CESG Kwok Wai Choong thanked the supporters of the 2022 event. Kwok, who also is a deputy director at Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA), said the event was created in part during the previous decade to connect Singapore’s 1,700 environmental services establishments with their foreign counterparts.

In addition to the NEA, Singapore-based Experia Events is another organizer of the 2024 CESG. Karen Tan of Experia referred to the 2022 CESG as a successful revival of the in-person gathering after COVID-19 had caused the cancellation of the 2020 conference.

Tan said the 15,000 people who gathered for the 2022 CES was down from the 24,000 people in 2018. However, with travel restrictions around the world now largely lifted, Tan said organizers are confident the 2024 CESG can reach the higher attendance figure.

Resource management, also referred to as resource circularity, will serve as one of three pillars for programming and the exhibit hall layout at the 2024 CESG. Tan listed waste collection, material resource recovery systems, sorting, extended producer responsibility (EPR), treatment systems and digital automation as topics tied into the resource management pillar.

The other two core topics or industry sectors at the 2024 CESG will be climate action and public sanitation.

At the 2022 CESG, program topics covered included waste conversion technologies, sustainability financing and the role of international cooperation in closing recycling loops. Exhibitors at that event included manufacturers or distributors of technology originating in Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom and several other nations.

The 2024 CESG, as did its predecessors, will take place at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore Convention Centre.