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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeOpportunities in Chemical Recycling in Developing Countries of Asia | with Ashwin Subramaniam
September 1, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This panel explores the opportunities for developing chemical recycling in developing countries in Asia and its barriers.Read More
Suhas Dixit
September 1, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Suhas Dixit is the founder and director of APChemi. APChemi is leaders in pyrolysis based chemical recycling of plastic waste since last 12 years.Read More
Ying Staton
September 1, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Ying Staton is leading Plastic Energy’s corporate development in Asia, focusing on strategy, business development and finance, from the company’s Asian base in Singapore. Read More
Ashwin Subramaniam
September 1, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Ashwin is an environmental economics and policy consultant with 12 years of business and entrepreneurial experience across Asia.Read More
Informal Waste Recycling in India | with Shailendra Singh
August 21, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Household waste in India follows the chain of waste picker to aggregator to recycler, and the entire chain operates informally.Read More
Haren Sanghavi
August 21, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Haren Sanghavi is Managing Director of GMS – Plastic Machinery Pvt. Ltd.Read More
Siddharth Hande
August 21, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Siddharth Hande is a spatial data analyst by training, interested in social entrepreneurship, technology, urban planning, informality and the circular economy in the developing world.Read More
Supriya Bhadakwad
August 21, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Supriya Bhadakwad is a waste picker, and a board member of SWaCH, Pune.Read More
Harshad Barde
August 21, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Harshad is currently Director of SWaCH Pune, India’s first autonomous cooperative of informal waste pickers, whose 3500 waste-picker members provide waste collection and management services to over 8 lakh properties in Pune.Read More
Food Waste and Cities: Helping Residents to Source-Separate using Behavioural Science | with Kat Heinrich
July 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Even with services, many residents continue to dispose of food into residual waste bins. What can be done?Read More
Daan van den Elzen
July 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Daan is Advisor on Waste Collection and Recycling for the City of Rotterdam. He developed the city’s Waste Management Directive and works on the program Rotterdam Circular where it involves waste management.Read More
Behaviour Change and Recycling Contamination | with Adam Read
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar discussed common contaminants in recycling collections (suburbia, high-rise and rural), and reflect on campaigns and programmes that have attempted to limit contamination.Read More
Behaviour Change and Recycling Contamination – Insights and Reflections
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Adam Read reflects on the webinar on behavioural change and recycling contamination which he moderated. Read More
Gemma Scott
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Gemma manages the Resource London activity to improve recycling performance in London’s purpose built flats.Read More
Sarah Ottaway
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sarah Ottaway became SUEZ recycling and recovery UK’s Sustainability and Social Value Lead in 2019, after 12 years delivering various programmes related to service enhancement, innovation and behaviour change in SUEZ’s public sector operations.Read More
Circular Economy Mentoring – Access to Support / Networks | with Emma Burlow
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar introduces two vital support networks where you can access mentoring support, the Circular Economy Club and Sustainability Mentors.Read More
Daniel O’Connor
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
David spends his time and expertise accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy. Read More
Inna Chilik
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Inna is coordinating Circular Economy Club (CEC) Mentors program, connecting CEC Members who have vast experience in implementing circularity with young students, professionals, and start-ups who are trying to embed the circular economy in their projectsRead More
International Developments in Single-Use Plastics Bans | with Jonathan Cocker
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Markets and legislators worldwide have increasing pressure to develop legislation banning single-use plastics.Read More
Jonathan Cocker
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Jonathan provides advice and representation to multinational companies on a variety of environmental and product compliance matters, including extended producer responsibilities, dangerous goods transportation, GHS, regulated wastes, consumer product and food safety, and contaminated lands matters.Read More
Sarah Edwards
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sarah Edwards is CEO of Eunomia Research & Consulting in North America.Read More
Sumangali Krishnan
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sumangali Krishnan is the Chief Business Officer at GA Circular (GA) and has developed and led various research, policy and on-ground projects aimed at developing a Circular Economy framework for Asia.Read More
Sally-Anne Käsner
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sally-Anne is a Director of Circular-Vision, a Circular Economy strategy and design consultancy. Read More
Adam Read Interviews David Palmer-Jones
June 12, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Adam Read talks to David about his life in the waste sector, and the evolution of waste management in UK, and his new role across Europe.Read More
David Palmer-Jones
June 12, 2020 | be Waste Wise
David is responsible for SUEZ’s recycling and recovery business activities across Northern Europe, including the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia and the Czech Republic.Read More
Single Use Plastics and Extended Producers Responsibility in India | with Kaushik Chandrasekhar
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This panel gathers experts from the plastic waste management domain in India and addresses some of the most pressing questions from waste management professionals and practitioners.Read More
Kaushik Chandrasekhar
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Kaushik Chandrasekhar’s background spans the fields of municipal solid waste management, environment law and climate changeRead More
Deepali Sinha Khetriwal
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Deepali has over 16 years of international work experience having lived, studied, and worked in Asia, Europe, and the United States.Read More
Pankaj Arora
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Pankaj is an Associate Director with a leading consulting firm in the human and social services practice.Read More
Shailendra Singh
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Shailendra describes himself as sustainable development strategist/enthusiast, with keen appreciation of the impact of climate change on business models & ways to mitigate the risk. Read More
Global Waste Response to COVID-19 | with Swati Singh Sambyal
May 8, 2020 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar panelists discuss how it has affected waste management worldwide.Read More
Swati Singh Sambyal
May 8, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Swati Singh Sambyal is a renowned researcher on Solid Waste Management. Swati has worked in India as well as across Global South on development issues concerning waste management.Read More
How COVID-19 is Affecting US Waste and Recycling | with Cole Rosengren
April 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar highlights resources for worker safety, broad trends from the initial month of major changes in the United States and how the response compares to that of other countries.Read More
Robin Wiener
April 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
As president of ISRI, Robin manages the day to day operations of the 1,300 member companies operating in nearly 4,000 locations in the U.S. and more than 40 countries worldwide that process, broker, and consume scrap commodities including metals, paper, plastic, glass, textiles, rubber, and electronics; provides strategic direction for the association, and oversees nearly 50 staff members.Read More
Reducing Food Waste in Hotels and Restaurants | with Gijs Langeveld
April 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar discusses innovation strategies to increase sustainable hospitality development.Read More
Carlos Martin-Rios
April 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
With 20 years of research experience in innovation management, sustainability and organization theory, Dr. Carlos Martin-Rios (PhD Rutgers University) is Associate Professor of Management at the École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western SwitzerlandRead More
Anna de Visser-Amundson
April 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Anna is a Project Leader and Research Fellow in Marketing at Hotelschool The Hague (HTH).Read More
Waste Response in UK during COVID-19 | with Sarahjane Widdowson
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
In the webinar we discuss the official guidelines and response in UK during COVID-19.Read More
Design for Reuse/ Repair | with Adam Read
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar, our panel of experts discuss some of the new examples of repair and reuse that are gaining traction both in the US and across Europe.Read More
Karen Aguilera
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Karen is a Chartered Waste Manager and a specialist in healthcare waste managementRead More
Brian Matuszewski
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Brian Matuszewski joined TerraCycle in 2017 to project lead the development of Loop.Read More
Recycling Incentives in Lower-Income Communities | With Zoë Lenkiewicz
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
How can we capture waste materials where there is no government waste collection service?Read More
Hilda Addah
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Hilda Addah is project coordinator and also co-founder of Asase foundation who is running Cashit Factory where the LDPE is recycledRead More
Victor Amusa
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Victor AMUSA is a social entrepreneur with over 5 years’ experience in incentive-motivated waste recycling.Read More
Mazin Mukhtar
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Mazin Mukhtar co-founded Akshar Foundation with Parmita Sarma in 2013.Read More
From the Microfactory to the Circular Economy | with Robert Crocker
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Following China’s effective ban on importing many waste materials for recycling, many developed nations, are being forced to rethink their waste strategies.Read More
Veena Sahajwalla
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Veena Sahajwalla has pioneered and championed localized waste processing and recycling in high-tech microfactories as an essential first step to the circular economy. Read More
Facing up to Climate Crisis: What are We Doing About It? | with Adam Read
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Moving from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to local ‘climate crisis’ talks, it’s time to stand up and make a change.Read More
Leigh Broadhurst
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Leigh is an experienced Chartered Waste Manager and IEMA Practitioner with extensive waste and resources industry experience spanning across 11 years. Read More
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