John A. Miller MCIWM
CIWM (NE) Chairman 2011 - 2013

Development Manager
Sustainable Resource Solutions Ltd
Leeds Innovation Centre, 103, Clarendon Road
Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9DF

Telephone: 07718 884827
E-Mail: john.miller@srs-eu.com

John is a Chartered Wastes Manager having worked at a senior level in both the waste management industry and as a Regulator for over 18 years. He has spent 6 years in the waste team at the Environment Agency as a senior officer and has also worked in both the local authority and private sectors in development and operational capacities for a variety of organisations within different sections of the waste management industry.

This varied experience has given John a unique skill set which includes: communications using various media to all audience levels, recycling - experience from collections and reprocessing perspectives (contract management and operations), environmental and H&S legislation - interpretation and definitions, project management, contract bidding and WEEE compliance.

John is currently responsible for the development of Waste to Product services on behalf of Sustainable Resource Solutions Limited.

John Skidmore FCIWM
Honorary Secretary 
General Councillor
Senior Vice President

Telephone : 01482 395505
E-Mail: john.skidmore@eastriding.gov.uk

As East Riding of Yorkshire Council's Head of Streetscene my responsibilities are wide ranging and include waste strategy development, waste collection, recycling, household waste recycling sites, treatment and disposal activities, street cleansing, gully cleansing, grounds, environmental enforcement, highway operations and winter maintenance. I am therefore, acutely aware of the massive agenda that faces our Industry.

I am particularly committed to learning and development, technical competence and raising professional standards at all levels and providing opportunities for our members to develop their careers through the Institutions activities.

I continue to press hard for timely deliverability on important issues and stand up for what I believe in which will be informed by listening to members' opinions in the North East Centre.

I am presently honoured to serve as Junior Vice President, General Councillor, North East Centre Councillor and Centre Secretary. The Institution is entering a new phase of opportunity and challenge, so it is vitally important to ensure it remains appropriate, fit for purpose and has a greater impact on the regional and national agenda. I will ensure its members voice is heard through effective two-way communication by influencing the Institutions future agenda by "making things happen" through the continuing support of North East Centre colleagues.

John Elliott FCIWM
Treasurer

I have been retired for 6 years after 42 years service to the waste industry experiencing all aspects of waste management.

I continue to support the centre in the role of treasurer and organising the Christmas Lunch.

I still maintaining an active interest in the industry and the Institution with a focus on the support of the regional interests of members where I believe the life blood of the Institution and its members is established.

Tony Farthing MCIWM

Tony Farthing has been a Corporate member of the CIWM for some 25 years. He has been involved in the waste management industry for 32 years, originally with Isle of Wight and West Yorkshire County Councils, joining Tyne and Wear County Council in 1982. Since then he has had various jobs within the successor authorities, now being employed by the Environment Agency at the Newcastle office as a PPC Compliance Officer specialising in waste compliance. 

Dave has been a member of CIWM since 1978 and was awarded Fellowship in May 2003.  He has over 30 years experience as a Senior Manager in the industry.

Dave has delivered training for CIWM within the region on development courses at Durham, Newcastle and York.  He has also on occasions given presentations at the Institution's open meetings on waste collection methods and systems and also on integrated service provision.  He has served on the Centre Council for a number of years and also previously represented the region on the Institution's General Council and it's Education, Training and Membership Committee.

Dave spent over 25 years at Gateshead where, as Head of Service, his responsibilities included waste services, before taking early retirement in 2004.  He has since offered his services in a number of Interim Management roles, where his knowledge and experience have proved invaluable.

Steve Robinson FCIWM
Chair of Cleansing SIG
CIWM Representative on BCC

Steve has worked in the waste industry for over 35 years and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution.

He is a member of CIWM by examination.

He has worked in local authorities in Yorkshire and the North-West and in 2001 established his own company-Essellar Waste Management. The company provides consultancy and training services on waste management and environmental subjects.

An extremely varied client base has seen Steve working in all parts of the UK and abroad.

Steve is the author of a number of publications on a variety of waste management subjects and has presented over eighty papers to a wide variety of organisations including the CIWM.

Steve has taught waste management subjects at several universities and colleges in the UK and has been an examiner on behalf of these organisations. He was instrumental in establishing and delivering the first Foundation Degree in Waste Management at Newcastle College.

He has been active in supporting education and training and development initiatives within the Centre including the successful "Weekend" schools, and the NGG groups.

Steve is a past-chairman of the North-East Centre of CIWM and is a former General Councillor.

He is currently a co-opted onto the membership and training committee

Steve is chairman of the Refuse, Recycling and Street Cleansing Special Interest Group (SIG) of CIWM.

He is the CIWM representative on the British Cleaning Council (BCC).

He is the CIWM representative on the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG)

He is the chairman of the Environmental Services Editorial Board of Chartered Institute of Public finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Steve believes that retention and development of the membership at regional level is the key to a healthy and successful Institution. He is an advocate of greater power and autonomy being devolved to each regional centre. 

Keith Simmonite FCIWM
Chairman of IWM Business Services

Over 40 years experience in Wastes & Resources Management including 12 years as Director of Waste Management for Sheffield City Council. A member of the board of Sheffield Heat and Power for 10 years during which time it established itself as the largest district heating company in the UK supplying heat and hot water produced from the Sheffield Waste to Energy plant. The company also secured a NFFO and installed electricity generating equipment to add to its portfolio of services Latterly my working career has been as Managing Director of paladin Consultancy Services.

A Past President of CIWM a member of the General Council and currently Chairman of IWM Business Services. In addition a member of the sub-group overseeing the review of CIWMs existing strategy and producing recommendations for it's forward strategy.

Dr John Barton MCIWM
Co-Opted Member

John Barton has over 35 years research, teaching and consultancy experience in waste management. His first career job was at the UK Government's Environmental Technology laboratory, Warren Spring, where he spent 17 years, 5 years as the Head of the Materials Recovery Division. Projects included design, commissioning and performance testing of the first generation of waste sorting and RDF plants in the UK, undertaking the National Waste Analysis Programme and running the Government's Recycling Advisory Unit. When WSL moved to AEA Technology in 1994, John joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. As well as continuing his research and consultancy activities, John set up and directed the Masters course on sustainable waste management which has trained over 100 UK and overseas graduates, many of whom currently work in the UK waste management sector and are CIWM members. The course closed in 2010 when John took a part-time role concentrating on completing research projects and supervising his PhD students. Over the years John has also provided consultancy advice to private sector, local and national government organisations including appointment as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lord Select Committee reviews on packaging waste, membership of CIWM technical committees and LOGOC 2012 Games Waste and Resource TAG. John was has been a co-opted member of the CIWM NEC since 2003. He has published some 60 papers (journal or conference proceedings) and is the author of over 30 reports published by Leeds University, Warren Spring Laboratory or sponsor organisations (primarily EU, DEFRA, DTi).  

Dr Jane Beasley MCIWM
Co-Opted Member 

Dr Jane Beasley is the Director of Beasley Associates Ltd, a waste and resource management consultancy, working with a wide range of stakeholders and their communities to produce progressive pioneering solutions. Jane is experienced in a wide range of issues including strategic waste management, carbon management, waste management research, stakeholder engagement, options appraisals and communications. Jane is regularly called upon to Chair technical meetings, present papers at national conferences, provide guidance and support to policy makers and most recently has been engaged with a wide range of waste partnerships, identifying options for progressing partnership activities and securing greater efficiency savings and has co-founded www.supportingpartnerships.com.

Keith Roberts FCIWM
Co-Opted Member
Member of CIWM Education, Training & Membership Committee

Alan Phillips MCIWM
Co-Opted Member
Telephone : 07813 755545

Alan has been a member of the Institution of Wastes Management for 22 years and is a Chartered Civil Engineer. He has extensive experience in the waste management field including MRF development, Waste contract formulation, Household Waste Recycling Centre development and recycling initiatives. He formed his own consultancy in 2002 and retired in 2010.

He was formerly a highways and bridges design engineer for West Yorkshire Road Construction Unit, then Group Project Engineer in West Yorkshire Waste Management and Technical Director of not for profit limited company and Environmental Body - Urban Mines. His consultancy covered a wide ranging series of waste studies and projects.

Mike Hibbert

Mike has worked in the waste and recycling sector for over 22 years in a variety of roles but principally around regulation, compliance assessment and staff development and training.

Initially working for West Yorkshire Waste Management, Mike joined the North East Regional waste team upon creation of the Environment Agency being involved in the development of OPRA for waste and creation of policy and guidance on Hazardous waste and Enforcement.

He then seconded to the Eastern front (Poland not Hull) for two years managing and delivering a programme of technical training for the Ministry of Environment and Chief Inspectorate prior to accession of Poland into the EU.. This was followed by being a lead trainer at the EA Environment Officers boot camp for new recruits.

Mike joined the CIWM as Regional Development Officer for the North East Centre in 2005 promoting membership and organising a range of seminars, conferences and site visits for members.

At the start of 2008, Mike started work on a HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) project based at the University of Huddersfield working with employers to assess whether the current Higher Education provision is meeting the needs of the Waste and Recycling industries. Subsequently the University validated and ran a Diploma in Professional Studies (Resource and Waste Management).

Since April 2011 Mike has been a self employed consultant with particular interest in use of multimedia delivery of training materials.

Having had ongoing involvement with the North East Centre for a number of years and CIWM nationally I feel I can contribute to the work of the Centre in promoting the interests of members and enhancing the services delivered.

Mike Ellis MCIWM
Co-Opted Member

Ray Georgeson MBE MCIWM
Co-Opted Member

Ray brings thirty years of experience and involvement in waste and resources to the challenges that face the industry today. From his first involvement as a volunteer waste paper collector for his local Friends of the Earth group through to managing his own professional services business today, Ray has displayed a passion for the environment and a desire to end our wasteful use of resources across many roles.

For many years Ray has operated at a senior executive and strategic level. He was Director of Policy and Evaluation for the UK Government's Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) from 2001-2008, producing four business plans spanning a decade of delivery of increased recycling, improved public communications and waste minimisation that contributed to the rapid improvement in Britain's recycling performance since 2001.

Before becoming Chief Executive of environmental charity Waste Watch from 1996-2001, Ray held a number of other project management posts in the community sector, and in his early career he was a sales executive in the textile industry.

From the mid-1990s onwards Ray has had strategic involvement in the development of waste and recycling policy and implementation. He acted as an adviser to the UK Government's Department of Environment (Defra) on the development of Waste Strategy 2000 and other policy developments, and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office (on the Waste not: want not review of waste policy). Ray was a founding director of WRAP and has served on a number of boards over the years, including being the first Chair of London Remade (recycling market development body for London) and CREATE UK (charity providing training through re-use of white goods) and a director of the Environment Council, Community Recycling Network and London Waste Action.

Today, Ray has developed a portfolio of interests in the industry alongside his business RGR. These include non-executive directorships of LondonWaste Ltd (a UK top ten waste management company), Bryson Recycling Ltd (social enterprise kerbside recycling company in Northern Ireland) and REalliance CIC (representative body for the community sector) which he chaired from 2008-10. Ray is a regular chair and speaker at industry events and a media commentator, including a regular column for Resource magazine.

Ray was educated at the University of Lancaster, Cranfield University School of Management and the College of Europe. He is a Chartered Waste Manager (MCIWM), member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was appointed MBE for services to sustainable waste management in the Millennium Year Honours List. 

Mark Richmond
WSP Environmental
Telephone : 0113 395 6200
mark.richmond@wspgroup.com

Mark is a Principal Consultant within the Waste and Resource Management team in WSP Environment & Energy and is a Chartered Waste Manager with six year's experience of wastes management. He has specific experience of developing waste strategy, waste and service procurement, assessing the feasibility of waste treatment facilities and undertaking industrial waste minimisation initiatives.

Mark has worked on a variety of projects whilst at WSP including a nine month secondment to Resource Efficiency Yorkshire as project manager. As part of this role, he worked to develop a number of interactive online networks that aimed to increase organic waste processing capacity in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Mark has also worked on a number of projects examining waste facility feasibility involving the detailed identification and analysis of available waste feedstock. This work has required a detailed understanding of waste stream composition and collection approaches in order to determine pre-treatment and processing requirements. His understanding of the economics of facility operation has been applied in preliminary financial appraisals based on the identified plant configuration, identified feedstock and revenues attracted for process outputs.

Mark has delivered a number of strategic waste projects to public and private sector clients. This has included a waste strategy for the redevelopment of Manchester town hall complex, an audit of electrical waste returns for Cisco systems, preparation and implementation of a Site Waste Management Plan at New South Glasgow Hospital, and a feasibility assessment for an anaerobic digestion facility for three Teesside local authorities.

This experience is supported by an additional two years of consultancy experience in which Mark was engaged in a variety of projects for local authorities and private sector clients. Such projects encompassed waste minimisation, waste strategy development, feasibility studies and preparation of waste and recycling procurement contracts and tender evaluations.

Nicola Coombes
Environment Agency
Telephone : 01709 312830
nicola.coombes@environment-agency.gov.uk

Nicola graduated from university in 2007 with a BSc (hons) in Environmental Management. During her course she completed a year long industrial work placement as an Environmental Co-ordinator for an international cement manufacturer. After graduation she worked in health, safety and environmental compliance for a national hazardous waste company. She now works as a PPC Regulatory Officer for the Environment Agency in South Yorkshire. In this role, Nicola specialises in waste regulation but she also regulates other sectors such as food & drink and surface treatment sites.

Terry Bradley

A Fellow of CIWM having been a member since 1978, I have previously served for many years on the North West Centre Council, having the privilege of being its Chair, and am now a member of the North East Centre having defected. I have previously served on General Council and been part of the Scientific and Technical Committee, and part of the Membership Committee. I have given evidence on behalf of the Institute to the House of Lords and chaired the publication of the "Flushing Bio-Reactor" technical paper for the CIWM.

I am now a General Councillor for the North East Centre, and contribute to the work of member recruitment by being an interviewer for corporate membership. I am also a member of the Audit Committee of General Council.

I have worked in waste management since 1973, joining Lancashire's Waste Disposal Authority in 1975, and staying in Lancashire till 1998, moving through the WDA and then Lancashire Waste Services. In 1998 I became MD of Kirklees Waste Services Ltd, delivering one of the first PFI contracts to a local authority client. I have been a Consultant since 2003 working primarily on Procurement tasks, and I am currently Procurement Director for Merseyside WDA completing their PFI contract procurement.

Outside of CIWM, I am a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. I also sit as a magistrate on the Pontefract Bench.

If you have taken the time to read this I hope you will still feel able to get in touch should you feel I can assist, as I am always willing to return some of the active support I have received from fellow members in the past, by helping other members.

Philip Hindmarsh
Co-Opted Member
New Generation Group

Philip Hindmarsh has worked in local authority environmental services for 22 years and been a Member of the Chartered Institution of Waste Management for 20 of those years. After attaining a BSc (Hons) degree he joined Tynedale District Council at Hexham as a Trainee Waste Management Officer studying towards the Diploma in Wastes Management. After being awarded the CIWM Diploma, Philip enjoyed a wide ranging role in Environmental Services dealing with most aspects of waste, recycling and street scene services. In 1995 he studied and was award the CPC in Road Transport and became the Council's Transport Manager along with his Environmental Services role. With further training and development, Philip moved up through the ranks at Tynedale eventually becoming Head of Waste and Transport Management until 2009 when Tynedale Council was disbanded as part of Local Government Review. He joined Northumberland County Council as Area Waste Manager, responsible for the waste services in the West of the county. In 2010 he joined Gateshead Borough Council as Service Development Manager in Local Environmental Services. This role involves supporting managers to improve and develop front line services and currently to identify and implement service efficiency savings.

Philip has a wide experience and knowledge of environmental, waste, transport and neighbourhood services, not only in the public sector but the many other partners, agencies and businesses he has worked with over the years. This experience has helped him in his role as North New Generation Group coordinator for the North East Centre which he has held for nearly a decade.  

Co-Opted Member
New Generation Group