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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeIs 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
Sian Cuffy- Young
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Sian Cuffy-Young has been involved in the environmental field for over fourteen years. Read More
Consumers and their Ability to Deliver Decarbonisation | with Adam Read
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Have we established new norms owing to the lessons learned from COVID-19? Will refill, loop, and other packaging formats take hold in our supermarkets?Read More
Stephen Clarke
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Stephen’s role is to oversee the communications strategy and PR teams for both TerraCycle Europe and Loop Europe. Read More
Trewin Restorick
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Trewin Restorick is Founder and CEO of the charity Hubbub UK www.hubbub.org.uk which transforms the way environmental messages are communicated by bringing people and organisations together as a force for good. Read More
David Greenfield
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
David is managing director and founder of SOENECS, a research and innovation practice in 2014 following 15 years in leadership roles in local and regional government. Read More
Are circular business models mainstream? Examples from the #CE100 series.
February 3, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Emma Burlow started her #CE100 series in Feb 2020 as a means of sharing some of the many successful circular business she comes across and works with.Read More
Nick Rawkins
February 3, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Nick Rawkins is the CEO and founder of London-based sustainable electronics start-up, RECONO.ME.Read More
Anthony Burns
February 3, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Anthony Burns is a recognised champion of sustainable fashion, and has developed a global centre of expertise in the servitisation of rented garments. Read More
Pandemic Effects on US Recycling Budgets | with Cole Rosengren
January 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Following multiple years of pressure due to commodity market changes, municipalities in the U.S. are now experiencing additional budget challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
Vita Quinn
January 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Vita Quinn’s utility experience includes cost apportionment and rate design for solid waste, recycling, stormwater, water, and sewer.Read More
Vincent Leray
January 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Vincent is combining his passion for community resilience with his knowledge of state and local governments and his experience with grant-making to unlock the potential of recycling programs nationwide.Read More
PFAS Disposal in the United States | with Cole Rosengren
November 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar discusses the current landscape around PFAS disposal in the United States.Read More
E.A. (Ev) Crunden
November 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
E.A. (Ev) Crunden is a climate and environment reporter.Read More
Upcycling Food Waste | with Kat Heinrich
November 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise 1
In this webinar, we discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for upcycling food, as well as, international developments in upcycled food standards.Read More
Francesca Goodman-Smith
November 19, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Francesca Goodman-Smith is the Waste Minimisation Manager at Foodstuffs NZ, New Zealand’s largest grocery retail business.Read More
Lifestyles Post COVID – Perspectives from Australia and UK | with Sarah Ottaway
November 17, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Join our panellists, as they discuss the current, the possible future and what needs to be done to create lifestyles post COVID which balance the needs of people and planet.Read More
Jo Hand
November 17, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Jo Hand is co-founder of Giki Social Enterprise, the creators of digital products to help people live sustainably. The free Gikibadges app helps find sustainable and healthy products in the UK supermarket. Giki Zero, provides an interactive, step by step … Read More
Safeguarding the Plastic Recycling Value Chain | with Circulate Capital
September 25, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Circulate Capital commissioned a study to understand challenges faced by the plastics recycling industry in South & Southeast Asia during COVID-19 and the interventions needed to sustain it.Read More
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