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Birdman Bill Oddie soared into Torbay to open the Institute of Wastes Management's 98th annual show, writes Bryan Jarvis. Clearly impressed with what he saw, Oddie dubbed it a 4M event: muck, machinery...and much money. With 306 exhibitors spread over two miles of sea front, many millions of pounds' worth of equipment were on display— hence IWM's steel-mesh cordon and annoyingly strict security control.
The show pumps a lot of money into IW1VI funds so rumours of a possible visitor's entry fee and Dutch auction for next year's stand space allocation should be quickly scotched.
There were plenty of one-man collection vehicles on show, mostly with Antipodean origins, and judging by the number of multi-compartment col
8 lection vehicles on show, recycling is here to stay.