CIWM Scotland Regional Centre
Centre Councillors
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Duncan Simpson MCIWM Valpak Duncan is based in Scotland and has responsibility for the recruitment of WEEE members to Valpak. He also provides a role liaising with the regional Agencies and Executive in Scotland. He joined Valpak in May 1998. |
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Linda Ovens MCIWM Entec UK Ltd Linda began her waste career in 1993 as site chemist for UK Waste's hazardous waste treatment and transfer facility at Kilsyth. After 4 years, she moved to consultancy specialising in waste strategy, licensing and contaminated land for Entec UK Ltd and after brief spells at two other consultancies, returned to Entec in 2004 to head up the Scottish waste management team. The majority of her work is with central/local government and local waste management companies in and the north east of England mainly focussed on waste strategy, contract procurement, permitting and licensing. She has recently returned to work following the birth of her first child and is enjoying the challenge of work versus family. Linda has always been a keen supporter of the CIWM particularly its opportunities for networking and career development and after serving the New Generation Group for a number of years is delighted to have graduated to Centre Council. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Scottish Environmental Services Association (SESA) and is therefore well connected and informed on the latest goings on within the Scottish waste management industry. |
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Rosie Traynor MCIWM (Co-opted) Rosie is a Principal Environmental Engineer with Aecom, based in their Edinburgh Office. She studied Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University and went on to do an MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control, where she first got involved in waste. Since graduating in 1993 she has been working as a consultant to various public and private clients on waste management and environmental engineering projects. She has just joined the Scottish Centre Council as Centre Secretary. |
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Prof Jim I Baird FCIWM Caledonian Environment Centre |
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Chris Ewing MCIWM Fife Council Currently employed by Fife Council as Environmental Sustainability Manager with responsibility for Waste Strategy, Contaminated Land, Air Quality, Carbon Emissions Reduction, and Waste Treatment & Disposal. Began working life as an Environmental Health Officer, working for a number of Scottish councils before developing an interest in waste management. Joined Dunfermline District Council in 1987 as Assistant General Manager (Waste Mgt) for six years before moving to work with UK Waste as Scottish Development Manager. Following the acquisition of UK Waste by Biffa Waste Services I worked as location manager in Edinburgh before joining Fife Council in my current role in 2002. |
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George Niblock FCIWM Niblock Environmental He has been a member of the Scottish Centre Council of CIWM since 1992 and is a past Chairman. George commenced employment in the waste management industry in 1966 with East Kilbride Council and progressed up the ladder to become Director of Environmental Health for Gordon District Council. He retired from local authority employment to form his own waste management consultancy. He was also a Senior Consultant with leading technical and management consultants Jacobs. He was an advisor to COSLA and to the Scottish Office / Executive. He has a particular interest in waste management Planning. He participated in the production of Planning Advice Note 63 Waste Management Planning . He has regularly made presentations at all levels from major conferences to small community groups and enjoys the direct interaction with members of the public. George states that he is passionate about street cleansing issues especially litter. He represented COSLA on the Scottish Executive group which reviewed Litter and Fly Tipping issues |
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Stratton MacDonald MCIWM South Ayrshire Council Stratton Macdonald is an Environmental Health Officer by profession and a Chartered Waste Manager. his career began in 1973 with Ayr County Council, based in the Kilmarnock Division. After qualifying as an EHO he worked for three years in Cumnock and Doon Valley District, before returning to Kyle and Carrick District Council in 1983 to take up his first post in waste management, based in Ayr. Stratton has worked in wastes management and public cleansing services since 1983 and recognises the tremendous improvements in technology and professionalism that have taken place in the industry over that period. His current post is as Group Leader-Waste Strategy with South Ayrshire Council, based in Ayr, and he represents the Council on the Ayrshire Joint Strategic Waste Management Project Group, the Cosla Waste Manager's network, and he is also the current Scottish executive representative for LARAC. Statton says 'We all have to take a break from work sometimes though, and I still play football twice or three times per week (if I am allowed!) on a very small five-a-side pitch, which I am glad to say is made from recycled tyres! I also play golf at Prestwick St. Nicholas, and am pleased to mention that I was on the winning team in 2009 at the CIWM golf day at Crowwood, although my contribution to winning was negligible! |
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Charlie Devine MCIWM Charlie has been closely involved in Waste Management since 1990 when he started as a Cleansing Supervisor with Renfrew District Council, he then moved to Hamilton District Council as the Cleansing DSO Manager in 1993 and at Local Government reorganisation progressed to the position of Commercial Services Manager with South Lanarkshire Council. Following several years working within the private sector, Charlie joined Falkirk Council in 2003 as the Waste Manager and worked on the delivery of the Forth Valley Area Waste Plan and the introduction of a number of successful Council wide recycling initiatives. Charlie joined Zero Waste Scotland in January 2009 as the Programme Manager for Recycling were was is involved in the delivering of Zero Waste Scotland and WRAP programmes for Local Authorities, small to medium size businesses, the construction sector and the distribution of funding to Community Recycling organisations. As of January 2011, Charlie has now taken on the expanded role of Head of Resource Management within Zero Waste Scotland.
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Nicki Souter MCIWM Nicki Souter Associates Nicki the Director of Nicki Souter Associates, which was founded in 2010, has worked for the last 14 years in researching, developing and delivering effective and successful communication strategies to raise awareness of, and change public attitudes and behaviours towards a range of environmental issues. Nicki has participated in a number of professional roles both nationally and internationally and, in 2009, was a member of the Scottish Government's Zero Waste Think Tank, and is currently a Scottish Centre Council member for the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and a member of the International Solid Waste Associations (ISWA) Communications Sub-group. |
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Andrew Law FCIWM Andrew worked in local government since 1972, firstly as a seasonal pool attendant and then on leaving school in 1973 in Environmental Health, qualifying as an EHO in 1977. Was employed by Lanark County Council, Hamilton and Clydesdale Districts and, from 1991, Argyll & Bute . With Argyll & Bute he was a Management Officer for Cleansing and Transport, amongst other things, and took on the modernisation of the Council's waste collection service. When the new unitary Council came into being in 1995/96 his role initially was as Head of Amenity Services.From 2003 until early release in 2010 he was the Council's Director of Operational Services, adding Roads, Piers and Harbours, Ferries and Airfields to the previous portfolio and heading the Department of over 1150 staff. Since leaving local government Andrew has worked as an interim manager with a west coast resource management company and was also the Regional Manager for Scotland's 2011 Census in Argyll & Bute. On the national stage he has taken a special interest in Wastes Management since the early 1980s and is an examiner in this area for the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland and has been a UK General Council member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and chaired the COSLA Waste Officer Network from around 2002 - 2007. From 2008 - 2009 he participated in the Scottish Government's Zero Waste Think Tank which made recommendations on moving Scotland away from its reliance on landfill. In his personal life, he is married, has three grown children, runs, plays a game of erratic golf, enjoys Argyll & Bute's outdoors and tries to catch up on reading.
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Trevor Jones MCIWM Retired Trevor has worked in Scottish Local Government all of his working life. He entered into management in 1988 as Assistant Director of Cleansing with the then Cunninghame District Council focussing on regulatory control of waste disposal operations. During Local Government reorganization in 1996 Trevor assumed the role of Operations Manager responsible for Transport and Cleansing for North Ayrshire Council. Trevor is now enjoying retirement and works out at the local gym a few times a week. |
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Mike Barr MCIWM (Co-opted) During over 20 years in waste management, 14 of which were with Enviros companies, Mike has advised government and industry bodies on Waste Management matters, including CIRIA, DEFRA, DOE (NI) and the Scottish Executive and contributed to UK waste management papers (notably WMP 26B) and the Irish EPA Landfill Design Manual. Mike re-joined Enviros in 2008, following six years as Project Director and Chief Engineer with Halcrow Group, leading the company's Waste Management Team in providing global support to the Water and Power Business Group and Technical Advisor inputs to the Dumfries and Galloway and Argyll and Bute municipal waste PFI contracts (Total value £40 million). During this period Mike also directed assistance to the Waste Recycling Group in their bid for the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority Contract and worked on projects in Eastern Europe and, The Middle East.
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Catherine Donnelly (Co-opted member)
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