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SWANA’s Technical Divisions open doors to the best networking opportunities in the solid waste industry!
SWANA's seven technical divisions keep track of hot topics, connect with experts, and shape the future of solid waste management. SWANA membership includes one free technical division subscription for the first year of your membership. Add more technical division subscriptions to your membership at any time.
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.
Benefits of Being a Technical Division Member
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?
Crowdsource Answers
SWANA's Community Forums (specific to each Technical Division) are email-based exchanges that 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.
Access Expertise
As a Division member, you have access to the full contact list of other 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?
Create SWANA’s Future
Division members shape the future of SWANA and the solid waste industry. Members lead the development of conference agendas and webinars that are the heart of SWANA’s educational programming, select award winners that exemplify industry excellence, design training programs that lead to professional certification, craft technical policies that guide industry practices and much more.
SWANA’s Technical Divisions
Collection & Transfer
The Collection and Transfer Division tracks equipment innovations and analyzes developments in the collection and transfer of refuse and recyclables.
Communication, Education & Marketing
The Communication, Education & Marketing Technical Division uses words and images to promote the solid waste industry.
Landfill Management
The SWANA Landfill Management Technical Division is committed to increasing awareness of the role that landfills play in solid waste management.
Landfill Gas & Biogas
SWANA’s Landfill Gas and Biogas Technical Division is widely recognized as the premier authority on issues surrounding landfill gas (LFG).
Planning & Management
The Planning and Management Technical Division at SWANA focuses on innovative solutions to challenges faced by solid waste decision-makers.
Sustainable Materials Management
The Sustainable Materials Management Technical Division is dedicated to environmental sustainability and minimizing municipal solid waste disposal.
Waste Conversion & Energy Recovery
The Waste Conversion and Energy Recovery Technical Division provides information and contacts about new technologies for converting waste into power.
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Call for Nominations YP Open Technical Division Positions
SWANA is now accepting applications for open Young Professionals Technical Division positions. The positions will advance the mission of the Young Professionals (YPs) group in their respective technical divisions.
