9.30 – 10.00 - Keynote Address
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Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (invited)
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Session 1: Future resource and waste strategy
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Three interlinked sessions focus on the three themes set out by Defra for the forthcoming strategy:
- Maximising resource productivity – through more efficient manufacturing processes
- Maximising the value from resources throughout their lifetimes – by designing products more smartly to increase longevity and enable recyclability
- Managing materials at end of life – by targeting environmental impacts.
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10.00 – 10.45 - Part 1 - Made smarter: resource efficient manufacturing
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Chair: tbc
Speakers include:
- Professor John Barrett, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, Leeds University
- Suez Environnement speaker, Collaborative working with manufacturers tbc (invited)
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10.45 – 11.30 - Part 2 - Designed smarter: durability, reusability, recyclability
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Speakers include:
- Anthony Sant, Sales & Marketing Director, AO Recycling – Closing the loop on white goods
- Susanne Baker, TechUK – Circular materials; making it happen
- Unilever speaker tbc (invited), the FMCG perspective
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11.30 – 11.50 - Refreshments & Networking
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Opportunity for networking, food and drink.
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11.50 – 13.00 - Part 3 - Recycled smarter: targeting environmental impacts
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Providing insight into some of the latest research and thinking, this session will explore how we can ‘reboot’ recycling through smarter targets based on environmental outcomes and impacts and how these might change current collection and sorting models.
Chair: Claire Brailsford, Chair of NAWDO and Interim Assistant Director of Environment, Derbyshire County Council
Speakers include:
- Jacob Hayler, Executive Director, Environmental Services Association
- Cllr Martin Tett, Chair, LGA Environment, Economy, Housing & Transport Board – the end of weight-based targets? (invited)
- Tom Murray, Head of Materials and Waste Evidence, Defra
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13.00 – 14.00 - Lunch
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Opportunity for networking, food and drink.
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14.00 – 15.10 - Breakout Sessions 1
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Session 1. Waste crime: priority actions to tackle serious fly-tipping and illegal waste operations.
Speakers include:
- Duncan Jones, Partnership Development Manager, Herts Waste Partnership & Chairman, Herts Fly Tipping Group – Collaborative working and Duty of Care
- Defra/Environment Agency speaker tbc (invited), Strengthening the regulatory framework
- Dan Cooke, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Viridor and ESA waste crime lead – Intelligence sharing and the ‘right Waste, right Place’ campaign
Session 2. Rolling out Extended Producer Responsibility to challenging waste streams – learning from abroad.
Speakers include:
- Billy Dolan,
Strategy and Compliance Manager, Repak – Introducing an EPR scheme for tyres in the Republic of Ireland (invited)
- Jessica Alexander, Executive Director, The National Bed Federation Ltd.
Session 3. Zoning: a different approach to MSW and commercial recycling and waste management.
Speakers include:
- Jarno Stet, Head of Service Operations, Westminster City Council (invited)
- Phil Eccles, Consultant, Liverpool Business Improvement District (invited)
- Chris Mills, Special Advisor – Collections and Recycling, WRAP
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15.10 – 15.30 - Refreshments and Networking
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Opportunity for networking, food and drink.
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15.30 – 16.30 - Breakout Sessions 2
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Session 4. A new dawn for communications: capitalising on the ‘Blue Planet’ effect.
Speakers include:
Session 5. Urban recycling: partnership approaches to inner city recycling
Speakers include:
- Gemma Scott, Project Manager, Resource London (invited) – Resource London & Peabody flats recycling partnership initiative
Session 6. Going for DRS – the latest developments
Speakers include:
- David Fitzsimons, Managing Director, Oakdene Hollins
- Callum Blackburn, Head of Policy & Research, Zero Waste Scotland – Assessing the different DRS models for Scotland
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