8.45 – 9.15 - Registration
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9.15 – 9.30 - Welcome
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Professor David Wilson MBE, CIWM President
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9.30 – 10.00 - Keynote Address
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Shaun Gallagher, Director, Environmental Quality, Defra
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10.00 – 11.30 – Session 1: Future Resource and Waste Strategy – Made Smarter, Designed Smarter
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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.
Chair: James Murray, Editor-in-Chief, BusinessGreen
Speakers include:
- Professor John Barrett,
Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, Leeds University – The role of
resource productivity in achieving economic and climate objectives
- Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director, SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK – Collaborative working with manufacturers
- Anthony Sant, Sales & Marketing Director, AO Recycling – Closing the loop on white goods
- Susanne Baker, Head of Programme - Environment and Compliance, TechUK – Circular materials; making it happen
- Richard Parker, Head of Sustainable Packaging, Iceland – tackling the packaging challenge
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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 – Session 2: Future Resource and Waste Strategy - Recycled Smarter
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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 – Balancing recycling ambitions, material value, and environmental outcomes
- Hillary Tanner, Policy Advisor, LGA
- Iain Gulland, Chief Executive, Zero Waste Scotland – Counting the carbon
- Tom Murray, Head of Materials and Waste Evidence, Defra
- Simon Hann, Life Cycle Assessment Specialist, Eunomia Research & Consulting
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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. Rolling out Extended Producer Responsibility to challenging waste streams including tyres and mattresses and learning from abroad.
Chair: Paul Bradley, Team Leader, Extended Producer Responsibility and Packaging Reform, Defra
Speakers include:
- Mark Gillick, Operations Manager, RepakELT – implementing a tyres EPR scheme in Republic of Ireland
- Jessica Alexander, Executive Director, The National Bed Federation – Examples of Schemes in Other Countries
- Dr Ioannis Hatzopoulos, Senior Manager of Sustainability Communications, Procter & Gamble – Producer-led Nappy Recycling
- Arne Campen, Environmental Compliance Manager, Landbell Group – Shaping New EPR Schemes: Lessons Learned from WEEE, Batteries and Packaging
Session 2. A new dawn for communications: capitalising on the ‘Blue Planet’ effect.
Chair: Stuart Foster, Chief Executive, Recoup
Speakers include:
- Alex Robinson, Managing Director, Hubbub Enterprise
- Sarah Clayton, Head of Citizen Behaviour Change, WRAP
- Tim Silman, Research Manager, Social Research Institute, Ipsos MORI
Session 3. Zoning: a different approach to MSW and commercial recycling and waste management.
Chair: Lee Marshall, Chief Executive, LARAC
Speakers include:
- Sarah Craddock, Commercial Waste Project Manager, Westminster City Council & Christina Wells, Area Manager, Heart of London Business Alliance
- Chris Mills, Special Advisor – Collections and Recycling, WRAP
- Keith Rundle, Bristol City Centre BID Development Manager
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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 – 16.40 - Breakout Sessions 2
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Session 4. Waste crime: priority actions to tackle serious fly-tipping and illegal waste operations.
Chair: Dr Colin Church, Chief Executive, CIWM
Speakers include:
- Duncan Jones, Partnership Development Manager, Herts Waste Partnership & Chairman, Herts Fly Tipping Group – Collaborative working and Duty of Care
- Alistair Paul, Joint Team Leader - Waste Regulation & Crime, Defra – 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 5. Going for DRS – the latest developments
Chair: David Fitzsimons, Managing Director, Oakdene Hollins
Speakers include:
- Callum Blackburn, Head of Policy & Research, Zero Waste Scotland – Assessing the different DRS models for Scotland
- Mickey Green, Managing Director, Somerset Waste Partnership – A local authority perspective: benefits, impacts and potential unintended consequences
- Dr Dominic Hogg, Chairman, Eunomia Research & Consulting – The case for a comprehensive deposit refund scheme as part of revised producer responsibility regulations
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16.40 – 18.00 - Drinks Reception & Presentation on CIWM Health & Safety Campaign
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| Stay for drinks, form vital connections and build lasting business relationships with your fellow delegates. |