CLEANUP 2024 tHEMES

The themes for Cleanup 2024 are:

  • PFAS International Symposium: Days 1 and 2 
    (involving a special international symposium)

  • Policy and guidance legacy contaminants
    - NEPM. NEMP, NRF and ANZG 
    - endpoints for remediation- mass flux approach from jurisdictional perspectives
    - legal responses to soil contamination

  • Advances in site characterisation and implications for site models
    - real-time monitoring tools
    - stratigraphic modelling
    - satellite hyperspectral imagery and machine learning

  • Recently emerged and emerging contaminants
    - pharmaceutical products
    - personal care products
    - microplastics
    - drugs
    - measurement
    - risk definition

  • Legacy contaminants
    - toxic metals
    - solvents
    - petroleum hydrocarbons
    - asbestos

  • Risk characterisation including bioavailability
    - ecological
    - human health
    - mixtures and policy implications

  • Diffuse pollution
    - assessing
    - monitoring
    - mapping
    - mass flux (focussing on PFAS sites)

  • Recent advances in remediation technologies
    - sustainability
    - green remediation
    - ex-situ and in-situ remediation

  • Climate change
    - contaminated land perspective
    - remediation technology perspective

  • Exploration, mining, and associated contaminated land
    - critical mineral
    - mineral sand

  • Wastes and the circular economy
    - landfill

  • ESG frameworks for remediation, investigation, and site management

  • Case studies
    -     risk to remediation (what's working and what's not) 

  • Communicating risk - what works

  • One Health – a unified approach to environmental, animal and human health


*Themes may be changed at the discretion of the Organising Committee