The Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, will play host to two international events in April this year. Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling 2009, sponsored by CSense, will commence on 4 April, with event organisers anticipating a strong international program (www.min-eng.com/scr09) for the two day event. This will then be followed immediately on the 6 April by Bio and Hydrometallurgy 2009, organised by Minerals Engineering International which is also a two day program (www.min-eng.com/biohydromet09). According to event organisers it will feature speakers from Finland, Iran, South Africa, India, Korea, Japan, Canada, Algeria, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Sweden, France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Serbia.