On 17-18 March 2010 St. Petersburg will host the 4th International Conference ‘Waste Recycling’ devoted to waste recycling. This conference will start its work already for the third time within the framework of the business program of the international forum ‘Big City Ecology’. The event will consist of two parts: topical sections in the Exhibition Complex ‘Lenexpo’ (7th pavilion, on 17 March) on subjects ‘Waste Burial Dumps: from Research to Re-cultivation’, ‘Waste-sorting Complexes’, ‘Equipment for Sorting’, Equipment for Recycling of Production and Consumption Waste’, as well as excursions to operating enterprises in St. Petersburg (18 March). The ‘Waste Recycling’ journal and OJS Company ‘Lenexpo’ with the support of the Russian Association of Waste Recycling are the organizers of this conference. The primary goal of this conference is rendering assistance to the establishment of useful and mutually beneficial contacts between the representatives of businesses, state and public organizations for spreading and introduction of the progressive Russian and foreign methods in the area of treatment of production and consumption wastes, waste recycling, saving of the resources and protection of the environment. The representatives of the leading companies of Russia, Germany and Sweden are expected to take part in this event and share their experience in the field of waste recycling.