At least 12 trade conferences will run the 2027 calendar for North American recycling, organics, plastics and waste management operators, with dates locked from Jan. 26 through Sept. 30 and two fixtures still listed as TBD.

What dates are locked in for early 2027?

The Construction & Demolition Recycling Association opens the season at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs, Florida, Jan. 26-28. CDRA's program covers C&D policy, economic outlook and safety.

The U.S. Composting Council's Compost 2027 follows Feb. 1-4 at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville, Florida. The 35th edition of the council's organics-heavy conference features panels, workshops and facility tours.

Resource Recycling's Plastics Recycling Conference runs March 1-3 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The 2027 plastics program is co-located with the Resource Recycling Conference and the Textile Recovery Summit, spanning packaging, federal and state policy, market dynamics and trade.

How does the spring calendar split by stream?

WasteExpo, the largest U.S. event on the list, takes May 3-6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Informa's Waste360 and the National Waste & Recycling Association co-produce programming for haulers, MRF operators, organics processors and environmental services professionals.

Biogas Americas, the American Biogas Council's annual conference, lands May 10-13 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville. Panels and training target operators and policymakers advancing anaerobic digestion.

ReFed's Food Waste Solutions Summit runs May 25-27 at the Marriott Marquis in Chicago, with a supply-chain food waste reduction focus that overlaps the organics and AD streams.

The Organics Recycling Conference follows June 15-16 at the Loews Vanderbilt Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee. Producer Waste Today built the agenda around diversion technology, market development and composting best practices.

What does the inaugural CAA EPR Forum change?

Circular Action Alliance will host its first EPR Forum Sept. 29-30 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The producer responsibility organization built the event for producers, recyclers, municipalities, policymakers and service providers implementing Extended Producer Responsibility programs in multiple U.S. states.

CAA co-located the forum with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition's conference and shared main-stage programming. Organizers said the agenda targets material-specific EPR strategies and recycling efficiency outcomes.

The Solid Waste Association of North America's RCon lands a week earlier, Sept. 21-24 in Portland, Oregon, with technical training, roundtables and tours for resource management leaders.

Which dates are still open on the 2027 calendar?

Two flagship gatherings carry TBD designations:

• Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference, produced by Recycling Today with support from ReMA's Paper Stock Industries Chapter.
• Corporate Growth Conference, produced by Waste Today for environmental services operators and investors tracking M&A and business development.

Waste & Recycling Expo fills the late-summer window, Aug. 4-5 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with programming on landfill, technology and safety operations.

Why is the Informa-WasteExpo connection worth flagging?

Informa owns a controlling stake in Informa TechTarget, the publisher behind Waste Dive — the trade outlet that compiled this calendar — and is also the corporate parent of WasteExpo. Waste Dive disclosed the arrangement and stated Informa exerts no editorial influence over its coverage. The structure keeps the industry's largest annual gathering and one of its most-widely read newsrooms under the same corporate roof, a fact operators should weigh when treating calendar moves as market signals.

The next concrete milestone is the Jan. 26 opening of CDRA's Bonita Springs meeting, followed by Compost 2027 in Jacksonville three days later. Operators tracking EPR rollout, plastics policy and organics diversion now have roughly eight months of confirmed industry programming to plan around, with Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference and Corporate Growth Conference dates still to be announced before the 2027 calendar fills in.