SWANA Technical Divisions open doors to the best networking in the industry
SWANA technical divisions keep track of hot topics, connect with experts, and shape the future of solid waste management.
SWANA membership includes one technical division subscription complementary in the first year of your membership. Add more technical division subscriptions to your membership at any time ($50).
Technical Division subscribers connect to other professionals who share the same interests and comparable challenges. Each technical division’s MySWANA forum encourages networking among its members. It’s the best way for you to shape the future of your career and the industry.
To add a technical division to your current SWANA membership, call our Membership department at 1-800-GO-SWANA (1-800-467-9262) or contact us by email.
SWANA Members: Join Your Technical Division
- Join a discussion thread.
- View shared files and announcements.
- Connect with fellow members.
Benefits of Being a Technical Division Member
Access Expertise
As a Division member, you have access to the Division subscribers who run some of the most successful and innovative solid waste programs in the industry. Who do you consider to be an industry superstar that you’d like to know? Whose program is a model that you want to emulate?
Crowdsource Answers
SWANA Community Forums (specific to each Technical Division) allow you to pose questions and get answers to pressing issues. Someone in the division probably has addressed the same challenges you are facing and is willing to share what worked and what didn’t, saving you time and money.
Help Shape the Industry
Division members help shape the future of the solid waste and resource management industry. Members lead the development of technical content, contribute conference and webinars topics key to SWANA educational programming, design training programs for professional certification, and craft technical policies that guide industry practices. The awards programs exemplify industry excellence.
Enhance Your Visibility
Gain recognition from your supervisors as someone who is leader material and willing to do more than the basics required for the job. Some companies require staff at certain levels to be members of a professional association and contribute volunteer time to it. Is yours one of those?
SWANA Technical Divisions
Collection & Transfer
The Collection & Transfer (C&T) Technical Division tracks equipment innovations and analyzes developments in the collection and transfer of refuse and recyclables.
Communication, Education & Marketing
The Communication, Education & Marketing (CEM) Technical Division uses words and images to promote the solid waste industry.
Landfill Management
The SWANA Landfill Management (LFM) Technical Division is committed to increasing awareness of the role that landfills play in solid waste management.
Landfill Gas & Biogas
The SWANA Landfill Gas & Biogas (LGB) Technical Division is widely recognized as the premier authority on issues surrounding landfill gas.
Planning & Management
The Planning & Management (P&M) Technical Division at SWANA focuses on innovative solutions to challenges faced by solid waste decision-makers.
Sustainable Materials Management
The Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Technical Division is dedicated to environmental sustainability and minimizing municipal solid waste disposal.
Waste Conversion & Energy Recovery
The Waste Conversion & Energy Recovery (WCER) Technical Division provides information and contacts about new technologies for converting waste into power.
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Call for Applications
Open Technical Division Positions
SWANA is accepting applications for open Technical Division positions through March 2, 2026.
