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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeReimagining Sustainable Agriculture Through Innovation in Plastic Waste | with Daniella Russo
November 25, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Plastic film in agriculture is valuable and widely used, but is difficult to collect and recycle, and especially in the past few years has become a real challenge. Read More
Rich Uto
November 25, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Rich Uto is the owner of Satsuma Farms and the first strawberry grower in the world to achieve the Sustainably Grown certification from SCS Global Services.Read More
James duBois
November 25, 2021 | be Waste Wise
James duBois is the Senior Manager of Environmental Sustainability at Driscoll’s. James has worked within the Reiter/Driscoll’s enterprise for 15 years in both the U.S. and Mexico.Read More
How Compost Helps Feed the Globe and Tackle Climate Change | with Kat Heinrich
November 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise 1
This webinar is for waste professionals, policymakers, and the curious-minded on how compost can help tackle global challenges.Read More
Jane Gilbert
November 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Jane is the current Chair of ISWA’s Biological Treatment Working Group and has gained her International Waste Manager status.Read More
Circular Economy Meets Climate Emergency | with Emma Burlow
November 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This panel explores the critical role of circular economy in carbon reduction.Read More
Chris Whyte
November 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Since 1992, Chris has been involved in environmental and sustainable project developments across Africa and channelled his focus into waste from 1999.Read More
COP26 – What is the Role of the Waste and Resources Sector in Delivering Net-Zero? | with Adam Read
November 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This webinar explores a range of issues in the run-up to COP26, focusing on how the critical role of the resources & waste sector has been overlooked in the planning for the global carbon event.Read More
Solid Waste Management in El Salvador & Ecuador | with Vishwas Vidyaranya
September 20, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This bilingual (English and Spanish) webinar gives a brief overview of municipal solid waste management situation, key challenges and prospects in El Salvador and Ecuador.Read More
Alejandra Rivera
September 20, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Alejandra Rivera is an expert in integrated solid waste management with 10 years of experience. She is the co-founder and has been the president of Asociación Sumando Impactos from August 2017 to February 2021. Read More
Thorben Knust
September 20, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Senior consultant with over ten years of international experience in the management of sustainable development projects. Read More
Policy Reforms in the UK | with Adam Read
September 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
What do the UK policy reforms mean for consumers, customers and those working in waste & resource management?Read More
Robert Thompson
September 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
ob leads the packaging sustainability strategy for his own brand packaging within the Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team at Co-op Food. Read More
Skills in the Circular Economy | with Adam Read
September 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This panel considers what skills are needed in the resources and waste sector to meet the challenges of the circular economy and decarbonisation.Read More
Amy Bloom
August 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Amy Bloom is a chemical engineer with consultancy experience across the waste sector, with a broad-ranging technical understanding including industrial, hazardous and municipal streams.Read More
Katie Cockburn
August 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Katie Cockburn is the Professional Services Director, CIWM and Director of Qualifications and Standards, WAMITAB, with fifteen years of experience in the vocational and technical education space. Over ten of these were spent developing and improving qualification standards in the … Read More
Multi-dimensional Approach to Food Waste Prevention: An Entrepreneur’s Journey | with Gijs Langeveld
July 27, 2021 | be Waste Wise 1
A discussion with Benjamin Lephilibert, at LightBlue Environmental Consulting.Read More
Benjamin Lephilibert
July 27, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Benjamin Lephilibert is the Founder and Managing Director of LightBlue Environmental ConsultingRead More
Is Reuse the New Recycling? | with Emma Burlow
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar, we explore the role of sharing and reuse in reducing our reliance on single-use items such as takeaway food and drink and e-commerce packaging.Read More
Dan Wright
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Dan Wright is the Managing Director of Phineas Group, the £5m sustainable shoe hanger business, and co-founder of CanCan, a technology platform pioneering the sharing of reusable containers across hospitality and retail.Read More
Alvin Leer
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Alvin Dammann Leer is a serial impact entrepreneur and investor.Read More
Recycling Policy Status Report in the United States | with Megan Quinn
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
In this mid-year report on U.S. national and state recycling policy, panelists discuss what the recycling policy landscape looks like at this point in the year.Read More
Megan Quinn
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Megan joined the Waste Dive team as a reporter in 2020. She previously covered the recycling industry as senior reporter for Scrap News, where she learned about the industry at scrapyards and steel mills.Read More
Yinka N. Bode-George
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Yinka N. Bode-George is an environmental health advocate passionate about creating health equity, environmental justice, and sustainable development through public policy and community building. Read More
Design and Consumption for the Circular Economy | with Robert Crocker
June 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
We explore what more could be done from the design, business, consumption, and policy perspectives to hasten the implementation of the circular economy.Read More
Paul Huxtable
June 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Paul is an accomplished Australian industrial designer and business developer with diverse international experience in many industry sectors spanning five decades.Read More
Niki Wallace
June 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Niki Wallace is the Director of Net Zero Lab and a Research Associate at the University of South Australia whose research focuses on co-design and circular economies.Read More
Marine Pollution – A Caribbean Perspective | With Sian-Cuffy Young
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This panel highlights the work being done in addressing marine pollution in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and St Lucia.Read More
Legena Henry
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Dr Legena Henry, PhD, is an MIT S.M. graduate and a Mechanical Engineer, who is now the Lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, specializing in Renewable Energy and Applied Mechanics. Read More
Lavina Alexander
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Lavina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Water Resources Technology and Management. Lavina’s current responsibility includes Coastal Zone Management and related issues. Read More
Tamoy Singh Clarke
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Ms Tamoy Singh Clarke is an Administrative and Project Management Professional with over 15 years of experience in the environmental non-profit sector.Read More
The Waste Crisis – Missing Billions (Part II – Waste as a Resource)
May 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar, panellists talk about why waste is a resource for billions and why does it matter.Read More
Jo Beall
May 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Jo Beall is Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Read More
Organic Waste Management in Latin America | with Vishwas Vidyaranya
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
This bilingual webinar is a brief introduction to the organic waste management scenario in the region with specific examples from Peru, Colombia and Costa Rica.Read More
Ronald Arrieta Calvo
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Ronald holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology from the Technical University of Berlin in 1991. He has over 40 years of teaching and research experience. Read More
Iván Sánchez
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Iván Sánchez is an industrial designer, urban cyclist and circular economy lover. Read More
Karla Bolaños Cárdenas
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Karla is a registered Geographic Engineer with a master’s degree in Environmental Management.Read More
The Waste Crisis – Missing Billions (Part I: Waste as a System)
April 19, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Analysing the barriers to the delivery of universal waste collection. Read More
Andre Kuncoroyekti
April 19, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Andre Kuncoroyekti is the Chief Delivery Officer at Project STOP Muncar. Read More
Dr Mansoor Ali
April 19, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Dr Mansoor Ali is a solid waste management expert with more than 35 years of experience in planning projects, designing systems, assessing recycling potential, and creating livelihoods from waste-related activities, with extensive experience in Pakistan. Read More
Normalising Reuse and Repair in the UK | with Sarah Ottaway
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
How do we take the next step and normalise individual decision making to embrace reuse and repair before considering something new?Read More
Zaqiya Cajee
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Zaqiya Cajee is the 18-year-old founder of Swopitup; The initiative provides a platform for young people to access the preloved market through clothing swops in schools.Read More
Andrew Ferguson
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Andrew is co-founder of Re-Fashion, a re-commerce platform that helps bring sustainable fashion to the mainstream. Re-Fashion inspires women to recycle clothes they no longer wear. Read More
Elaine Brown
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Now at the Edinburgh Remakery, she is driving forward the concept of Re-use and Repair through the E-Waste and Education Hub in Leith.Read More
Food Rescue: Responding to a Global Pandemic and Beyond | with Kat Heinrich
March 11, 2021 | be Waste Wise 1
Join us to hear from Beth Fitzpatrick about OzHarvest’s food rescue activities in Australia.Read More
Bethany Fitzpatrick
March 11, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Beth’s career has evolved from producing large-scale events to leading operations with Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, OzHarvest.Read More
Managing Waste in the Caribbean | with Sian Young
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar, the panellists discuss managing waste in the Caribbean, emphasising how it all worked during a pandemic. Read More
Terri La Fon
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Terri-Anne Carter-La Fon holds the post of Recycling and Recovery Manager at the Trinidad and Tobago Solid Waste Management Company Limited (SWMCOL). Read More
Shelly Ann-Dunkley
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
After working for over 8 years in the US, Ms Dunkley relocated to Jamaica and started Jamaica’s first environmentally themed magazine titled ECCO Magazine – Environmentally Conscious Consumer Operations. Read More
Nerline Ballantyne-Veira
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Nerline Ballantyne-Veira is guided by the personal philosophy that, “The destruction and degradation of the environment are everyone’s doing; therefore its preservation and conservation should be everyone’s responsibility”.Read More
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