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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeRecycling 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
Mickey Green
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Mickey Green has been managing director of Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) since September 2017. SWP was the first county wide partnership of waste collection and disposal authorities, and has had a long history of innovation; the first to roll out … Read More
Paul Frith
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Paul set up Frith Resource Management in 2008 following a career in technical services and consultancy for waste and carbon management since 1997.Read More
Circular Food | with Katherine Heinrich
February 5, 2020 | be Waste Wise
This webinar delves into the benefits, risks, practical applications and challenges of turning surplus food into animal feed.Read More
Karen Luyckx
February 4, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Karen is Head of Research at Feedback, a UK-based campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming our food system.Read More
Olympia Yarger
February 4, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Olympia is a farmer, innovator and a leader in insect farming in Australia.Read More
Chemical Recycling 101 | with Adam Read
February 3, 2020 | be Waste Wise
The focus on chemical recycling has intensified in the recent past. But, what is chemical recycling and how does the process differ from recovery and mechanical recycling?Read More
Adrian Haworth
February 3, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Adrian Haworth was the Sales and Marketing Director of Recycling Technologies from 2013 to 2019 and continues as a consultant to the company.Read More
Paula Luu
February 3, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Paula is a Project Director at Closed Loop Partners, an investment and advisory services firm focused on building the circular economy.Read More
The Future of Waste: Consumption, Governance and Regulation
December 18, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Waste governance is now at a crossroad: global increases in consumption in all categories are challenging waste regimes and management strategies everywhere, and especially in the Asian region.Read More
The Future of Waste Picking | with Robert Crocker
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
In this conversation we speak to Cecilia Santos who has direct experience of working with waste picker communities how the world can better make use of their lives and talents.
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Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Born in São Paulo, Loschiavo is a philosopher and full Professor of Design in the College of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. Read More
Role of Packaging in Reducing Food Waste | with Gijs Langeveld
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
To what extent is food packaging creating added value? Read More
Richard Swannell
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Richard is committed to working on ways of reducing man’s impact on the environment. A biochemist by training, he has a strong expertise in delivering more resource efficient and sustainable practices within businesses, and on reducing food waste and increasing recycling. Read More
Helén Williams
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Helén Williams is an associate professor of Environment and Energy system and part of the multi-disciplinary Service Research Center at Karlstad University.Read More
Eliminating Construction Waste | with Robert Crocker
November 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
How can the present linear model in design and construction be replaced with a circular model?Read More
Duncan Baker-Brown
November 21, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Duncan is an architect, academic and environmental activist.Read More
Sustainable Food Chains | with Gijs Langeveld
October 23, 2019 | be Waste Wise
There is an overload of food waste initiatives, but which are the ones which create impact?Read More
Chris Cochran
October 23, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Chris provides strategic oversight to the entire ReFED organization and all program areasRead More
Toine Timmermans
October 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Toine Timmermans is Program Manager Circular Economy in Food at Wageningen University & Research, and Coordinator of the EU projects FUSIONS and REFRESH. Read More
The Changing Global Commodity Markets
October 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
We discuss changes over the last 2 years, following the closure of Chinese markets for plastics, and increasing concerns about paper and plastics in other South East Asian markets. Read More
Simon Rutledge
October 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Simon has over 25 years of experience within the UK waste management and the wider safety and environmental and sustainability management field, working within the regulatory and policy making arena.Read More
The Ultimate Journey from Dump Sites to a Circular Economy – ISWA YPG 2nd Online Conference (Day 2)
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Day 2 of ISWA Young Professionals Group’s second online conferenceRead More
The Ultimate Journey from Dump Sites to a Circular Economy – ISWA YPG 2nd Online Conference (Day 1)
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Day 1 of ISWA Young Professionals Group’s second online conferenceRead More
Social Enterprises in Zero Waste for Profit & Purpose | by Kate Bailey
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Join two global experts in exploring how the social enterprise business structure can transfer to the recycling and reuse sector. Read More
Eric Lombardi
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Eric is working to connect the people and best practices from around the world to facilitate the building of Zero Waste Communities through the creation and expansion of the “Social Enterprise” model. Read More
Gerry Higgins
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Gerry Higgins is Managing Director of Social Enterprise World Forum and Director of International Enterprise at Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS). Read More
Food Waste Legislation: Approaches from Europe and US
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Food waste is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces today, contributing to climate change and resource depletion.Read More
Marco Ricci – Jürgensen
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
rco Ricci – Jürgensen is highly considered as an expert who conceives waste and recycling issues going beyond technical detailsRead More
John Fischer
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Fischer is Branch Chief for Commercial Waste Reduction and Waste Planning at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).Read More
Kat Heinrich
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Kat Heinrich is a food waste specialist in Australia and winner of the 2017 GISA Women in Waste Leadership Award.Read More
Marine Plastic Pollution – Sources, Forces and Courses of Action
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
This expert panel reflects on the arrival of plastics in the marine environment, consider how we got here and most importantly what we can do.Read More
Louise Edge
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Louise Edge is an Environmental Campaign Coordinator at GreenpeaceRead More
Libby Peake
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Libby Peake is senior policy adviser on resource stewardship at Green Alliance, a UK based independent charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.Read More
John Gertsakis
July 8, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Gertsakis is a sustainability practitioner with experience as an industry adviser, consultant, research academic and advocate. He is the co-founder of the newly formed Ewaste Watch Institute, and he co-authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products. Read More
Beyond E-waste Recycling – Electronics Consumption and the Challenge of Sustainability
July 8, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Ewaste Watch in Australia acts in the public interest to protect human health and the environment by accelerating increased levels of electronics sustainability from cradle to cradle. Read More
Optimizing Food Rescue Programs: Prioritizing Strategies to Deliver the Best Community Value
May 3, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Expanding food recovery programs is a critical action in a community’s overall strategy to reduce wasted food, but some efforts may deliver more community value than others.Read More
Madeline Keating
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Madeline Keating is an Urban Fellow with NRDC’s Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program and is the City Lead in Denver for NRDC’s Food Matters project.Read More
Elaine Blatt
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Elaine Blatt is a Senior Policy and Program Analyst at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Read More
Peter Canepa
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Peter Canepa joined the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in January 2017, providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expertise to Oregon’s Materials Management program.Read More
Vaughan Levitzke
April 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Vaughan Levitzke has more than 35 years’ experience in government, project management and leadership. Vaughan established Zero Waste SA in 2003 and is responsible for a multitude of programs and projects carried out by Zero Waste SA and its partner organisations, … Read More
Reflections on Sustainable Resource Management in Developing Economies
April 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Novel approaches to ensure waste management in poorer countries is sustainable.Read More
What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050
March 15, 2019 | be Waste Wise
A webinar which launches the World Bank report of the same name. Read More
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