Put your plant, technology and services in front of NSW's buyers.
The Expo is for NSW's waste and resource recovery market. Meet its buyers in two days instead of chasing them all year. Take a stand on the expo floor, with pre-booked 1-to-1 meetings alongside it.
01Waste, recycling and resource recovery operatorscollection contractors and MRF/landfill owners
02Metropolitan and regional NSW councilsgreater Sydney to the Hunter and Illawarra
03NSW Government departments and agenciesenvironmental regulators and infrastructure planners
Pre-booked 1-to-1 meetings
Date
21 & 22 July 2027
Venue
Sydney Showground
City
Sydney
Format
Trade exhibition
Why exhibit
Be in front of NSW's buyers.
The councils and operators in NSW's waste and recycling market are buying.
What meeting NSW's buyers in one place gets you
Direct access to council and government buyers
NSW councils control significant waste service budgets and are under growing pressure to roll out FOGO, reduce landfill reliance and meet circular economy targets - all of which is driving fresh demand for new suppliers and technology.
A qualified, senior audience
Sydney's waste and resource recovery sector has consistently attracted council decision-makers, infrastructure owners and operators with genuine budget and purchasing authority to past NSW trade events.
Show your equipment working
Live Equipment & Technology Demonstrations are part of the Expo, so buyers can see your plant and technology working before they specify it.
Real commercial outcomes
Generate qualified leads, launch new products and stay visible to the industry that will define NSW's circular economy transition over the next decade.
Who you will meet
A qualified, senior audience.
Six buyer groups, segmented by the work each one is answerable for rather than by job title. Every group below arrives with a budget, a deadline and something it has to buy.
Product stewardshipRecycled contentVerified material supply
Investors, Innovators & Start-ups
Who they are
Start-ups and scale-upsEquipment financeInfrastructure fundsUniversities and TAFEsResearch institutions
Responsibilities
CommercialisationCapital raisingRoute to market
The inaugural event, 21 & 22 July 2027
2,000+
industry professionals
80+
exhibitors on the expo floor
250+
public sector buyers, within the 2,000+
128
local councils in NSW
Why they are buying
NSW regulation and NSW funding are moving buying decisions now.
Councils are buying together
State-funded: "a $16 million investment in a new joint procurement facilitation service to make it easier for local government to collectively procure waste services", initially targeting major Greater Sydney waste contracts.
FOGO and contract renewal
Mandated organics separation puts a FOGO rollout on council plans across NSW, alongside kerbside collection and contract renewal. NSW has 128 local councils, and the rules are state-wide.
The nation's largest levy
From 1 July 2026 the NSW EPA's waste levy is $180.20 a tonne in the Metropolitan Levy Area and $103.80 in the Regional Levy Area. It is the nation's largest waste levy and prices what goes to landfill. Every tonne an operator or a council diverts is money kept.
The meetings programme
Meetings booked before you arrive.
The Expo adds pre-booked 1-to-1 meetings inside a full trade floor. connexU has run the meetings programme since 2022.
When you book your stand, you tell us what you sell and which organisations you want in front of it.
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Step 2 of 4
Your meetings are booked
Meetings are booked ahead of the Expo, so you arrive with a schedule of 1-to-1 conversations already in place.
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Step 3 of 4
Meetings and the expo floor
Your stand is open across both days of a full trade exhibition, and the booked meetings happen on it, added to the expo floor rather than replacing it.
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Step 4 of 4
Leave with the contacts
You leave with the conversations you had and the organisations behind them: what they are specifying, and when they expect to buy.
The expo floor
Stand where your buyers are looking.
Zones group the plant, technology and services buyers came to compare.
