RED HOT TOPICS FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation in times of Austerity
Friday 7th April 2017, Wyvern Club, Taunton
Do the current ‘challenges’ outweigh the ‘opportunities’ for the UK recycling & waste industry? Are we part of a sector that is maturing and moving forward or staggering on against all odds? Is your glass half full or half empty?
How should we approach the material uncertainties of our impending Brexit, continued frustrations regarding a UK Government reluctant to provide vision and clarity on resource efficiency and the circular economy, falling municipal recycling levels, and the never-ending erosion of public budget provision for core waste services?
Should we be feeling liberated by the freedom and opportunities to carve out new approaches to effective resource management in a ‘Global Britain’, embracing commercial opportunities and new service models for greater resource productivity across all sectors, and revelling in a commercial focus on productivity, waste reduction, renewable energy generation and the ever-increasing recycling levels of packaging materials?
Whatever your perspective, and wherever you contribute as a waste management professional, our latest focus on red hot topics is designed to provide insight from leading practitioners across the sector in the South West, and a platform for discussion and input for members. We hope to see you there.
PROGRAMME
09.15 – 09.45 Arrival reception with tea & coffee
0945 – 10.00 CIWM South West Centre 2017 AGM
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and Introduction: Chair CIWM South West
10.05 – 10.25 UK waste and resource management in a global context –
CIWMs role in addressing future challenges:
Professor David C Wilson MBE, Senior Vice President CIWM
10.25 – 10.45 Waste Crime: Sector Enemy Number 1?
An overview/update on initiatives to tackle crime:
Pandora Rene - Environment Agency
10.45 -– 11.05 Local AuthoritiesOverview
Progressive Recycling & Resource Management in Austerity:
Steve Read, Managing Director, Somerset Waste Partnership/
Gloucestershire Joint Waste Partnership
11.05 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee break
11.30 – 11.50 Legal Update: Let's get serious and personal –
consequences and avoidance of waste related offences:
Richard Voke, Partner, Head of Business Risk & Regulation,
Ashfords LLP
11.50 – 12.10 A View from Operations –
Industry, Infrastructure & Innovation:
Dan Cooke, Director of Regulatory Affairs,
Viridor and on behalf of ESA
12.10 – 12.30 Health & Safety –
Still Too Dangerous? Progress with HSE, FPPs, WISH etc:
Claire Odd, Group SHEQ Manager
Biffa and Vice Chair of the ESA Health & Safety Group
12.30 – 13.00 Q&A, PANEL Discussion & Audience Poll
(Questions on Resource Management Priorities
to be posed at the start).
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and networking
Member Rate: £20.00
Non Member Rate: £30.00
Student Rate, Unemployed, Retired: £10.00
Meeting kindly sponsored by Ashfords LLP
The seminar counts as 3 hours towards your CPD