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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeTim Werner
September 19, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Dr. Tim Werner, MAusIMM, FRGS is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. With a background in environmental engineering and geographical science, his research employs mixed methods from economic … Read More
Mohan Yellishetty
September 19, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Assoc. Prof. Mohan Yellishetty is an Australian Endeavour Fellow and Chartered Mining Engineer with an established teaching and research profile in the field of mining and environmental engineering. He possesses more than two decades of promising research and an altruistic … Read More
Rajesh Chadha
September 18, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Dr. Rajesh Chadha is a Senior Fellow at CSEP, Center for Social and Economic Progress. He was formerly a Professor & Research Director at NCAER. He has worked extensively on regional and multilateral issues pertaining to international trade. His other … Read More
Sapna Narula
September 18, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Prof Sapna Narula currently serves Nalanda University as a Professor & Dean of School of Management Studies. As a distinguished academician, she has made immense contributions to the ESG and sustainable business domain through her teaching, research and consultancy efforts. … Read More
Financing Circular Economy in LATAM | with Vishwas Vidyaranya
August 22, 2022 | be Waste Wise
The webinar gives an insight into innovative finance instruments and case studies for financing circular economy projects in LATAM.Read More
Andrea Corzo
August 22, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Andrea is a lawyer with a specialization in environmental consultancy and a master’s degree in environment, human dimensions, and socioeconomics.Read More
Valeria Dagnino Contreras
August 22, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Valeria is the Programme Analyst for the Climate Bonds Initiative’s LatAm team and is based in Mexico City. She is responsible for supporting the delivery of key activities under the Latam programme and supporting the efforts to drive the development of the Green Finance market in the region.Read More
How to Make Source Segregation Happen on Ground (in India) | with Brajesh Dubey
August 11, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Stakeholders from different sectors involved in developing waste management infrastructure, especially the urban sector, come together and discuss the various issues associated with developing an effective, working and sustaining source segregated waste collection and treatment systems. Read More
Vijai Singhal
August 11, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Vijai Singhal has worked in various capacities in Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board since 1984. Read More
Vidya Bhooshan Singh
August 11, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Vidya Bhooshan Singh has been working in the development sector for more than 10+ years in different thematic areas like Plastic Waste Management, SLWM, Water and Sanitation, Agriculture & Livelihood, and Environment, with different capacities in various states like Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan in India.Read More
Managing Food Waste in the Caribbean | with Sian Cuffy-Young
August 9, 2022 | be Waste Wise
In 2017, Dr Lystra Fletcher-Paul of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that the Caribbean and Latin America waste a staggering 78 million tons of food annually, which totals 6 per cent of global food production, and Trinidad and Tobago is the most wasteful country in the region.Read More
Jordann Norbert
August 9, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Jordann has always had a passion for education and sustainable development, specifically within the Hospitality and Tourism sector. Read More
New Model for Urban Food Waste Collection Breaking Down Barriers | with Kat Heinrich
August 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise 1
This model is overcoming barriers by providing a service that is at the human scale, quiet, and emits zero emissions.Read More
Daniels Langeberg
August 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Daniels founded EcoCaddy after returning from Shanghai, China, where he was working as an Urban Designer. Read More
Environmental Justice in Waste and Recycling | with Megan Quinn
July 20, 2022 | be Waste Wise
This webinar explores environmental justice from a policy and trends perspective and understands how it is looked at in a nonprofit setting.Read More
Jose Almanzar
July 20, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Jose has been practicing environmental law for more than a decade, in addition to several years prior working as an environmental scientist.Read More
Brieanne Berry
July 20, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Dr. Berry studies systems of production-consumption-disposal to understand how we can build economies that are more fair and less wasteful.Read More
Michael Haedicke
July 20, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Michael Haedicke is an associate professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. Read More
Matthew Karmel
July 20, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Matthew Karmel is passionate about sustainability and the environment. As an environmental attorney at the Riker Danzig law firm in New Jersey, Matthew’s practice includes traditional environmental counseling and litigation, as well as matters relating to sustainability, waste management, renewable energy, climate change, and environmental justice. Read More
Waste from the Renewable Energy Sector and E-Waste in India | with Brajesh Dubey
June 29, 2022 | be Waste Wise
In this webinar, stakeholders from various sectors such as the waste management industry, service providers for rule implementations, academia, training and capacity-building agencies come together and discuss the various issues associated with this waste stream, which will include, better waste management strategies, implementation of EPR, recovery of valuable resources and transition to a circular economy framework for this electronic waste.Read More
Virender Kaul
June 29, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Virender Kaul is the Head of Operations at E Parisaraa Pvt Ltd. Read More
Prabhjot Sodhi
June 29, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Prabhjot has worked for the last 12 years in the implementation of Circular Economy (CE) including sector strategies, systems thinking, materials flow, recovery centre, competence development programs, business models, including the informal sector, and addressing EPR.Read More
Radhika Kalia
June 29, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Radhika Kalia, Managing Director at RLG Systems India Private Limited, is a visionary with nearly three decades of expertise in customer relationship management, operations, corporate communications, public relations, business development, and revenue portfolios, has worked with organizations such as Panasonic India, Samsung Electronics, EXL Service, HT Media, and Haier Appliances India.Read More
Innovating Our Way Out of the Global Waste Crisis | with Adam Read
June 14, 2022 | be Waste Wise
With as much as 80% of the population in developing countries without regular and effective waste collection, what hope is there for a truly global sustainable waste management solution?Read More
Tracy Sutton
June 14, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Founder and lead expert Tracy Sutton set up Root in 2013 to help organisations use less and focus on becoming regenerative, inclusive and kinder to people and our planet.Read More
Circular Economy in Healthcare – From Theory to Practice | with Emma Burlow
May 31, 2022 | be Waste Wise
We discuss the contribution that circular medical textiles and instruments can make towards reducing the carbon footprint of the sector and what the circular surgical theatre of the future could look like, how decontamination technology is developing, and its potential to be rolled out globally.Read More
Tom Dawson
May 31, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Tom Dawson (@drtomdw) is the founder of Revolution-ZERO, a net zero, circular economy focused reusable PPE and medical textiles solution. Read More
Paul Broadberry
May 31, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Paul Broadberry is the Country Manager for Vanguard Medical Devices Ltd. Vanguard is a single use medical device (SUD) remanufacturer.Read More
Wastewater Management – The Trinidad and Tobago Perspective | with Sian Cuffy-Young
May 23, 2022 | be Waste Wise
We discuss two viewpoints – management and operations and the challenges, opportunities, and recommendations on the way forward.Read More
Wayne Williams
May 23, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Wayne O. Williams is an Environmental Engineer and a Wastewater Subject Matter Expert. Read More
Timothy Augustus
May 23, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Timothy Augustus has been involved in the operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants, sanitary construction of water and wastewater systems, and the supervision of wastewater treatment plant operators for over 16 years. The vast knowledge and experience of various … Read More
Measuring Food Waste: The Global FLW Standard | with Gijs Langeveld
April 5, 2022 | be Waste Wise 1
The Food Loss & Waste Protocol, a multi-stakeholder partnership, has developed the FLW Standard. The steering committee includes seven expert institutions: Consumer Goods Forum, Food, and Agriculture Organization (FAO), EU Fusions, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), World Resources Institute (WRI), and Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).Read More
Brian Lipinski
April 5, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brian Lipinski is a research associate with the Food Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI). During his time at WRI, he has worked extensively on the topic of food loss and waste, having served as the lead author on the paper “Reducing Food Loss and Waste.”Read More
Bio-economy: Connecting Crops, Carbon & Cash | with Jonathan Cocker
April 5, 2022 | be Waste Wise
With a lively panel of international industry experts, we discuss lower carbon intensities and related monetary opportunities for both the waste and energy industries.Read More
Jayson Zwierschke
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
For over 20 years, Jay Zwierschke has been a noteworthy leader in the Canadian cleantech space. Read More
Brittney Drake
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brittney Drake’s background is in technical design across the refining, petrochemical and mining industries including the extensive time spent in the field provides unconventional strategies for the changing environment and challenges of decarbonization. Read More
Brent Lyon
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brent Lyon, PEng is Scovan Engineering’s Director of Business Development, with a strong focus on biogas projects. Prior to this, he was an executive recruiter for renewable energy and mining companies, a management strategic consultant, the chief feedstock negotiator for a 66MW biomass-fueled power plant, and even the assistant brewmaster for the first craft brewery in Canada. Brent is a Professional Chemical engineer with an additional academic background in industrial microbiology.Read More
Enabling Effective Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: Public Consultation Workshop
March 29, 2022 | be Waste Wise
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and be Waste Wise (bWW), in partnership with The Incubation Network, is conducting a series of 12 online workshops for a city network consisting of select cities in India, namely Panjim, Varanasi, East Delhi, Surat and Vadodara on aspects relating to solid and plastic waste management.Read More
Plastic Credits and Its Applicability in Latin America | with Vishwas Vidyaranya
March 14, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Plastic credit is a novel concept that allows financial leverage for social projects that seek to reduce plastic pollution.Read More
Kamal Raj
March 14, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Biotechnologist by education, Kamal Raj is a Solid Waste Management professional. In the past, he has co-founded a social enterprise that works in environmental and civic action through behavioural change.Read More
How Local Organics Recyclers in the US Are Weathering the Pandemic | with Cole Rosengren
February 28, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Learn how organics recyclers in two major U.S. cities have approached this challenge while remaining vocal advocates for change in their communities.Read More
Marvin Hayes
February 28, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Marvin Hayes has been a youth educator and mentor for over 20 years. Read More
Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli
February 28, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli sits on the US Composting Council board of directors and the steering committee of the Institute for Local Self Reliance’s Community Composting Coalition.Read More
How Environmental is Social Value? | with Adam Read
February 24, 2022 | be Waste Wise
This webinar looks at the role of the sector in embedding activities as part of and above the day to day which create community benefits, training opportunities, local economic improvements while moving towards a more circular and carbon-efficient economy.Read More
Graham Duxbury
February 24, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Graham Duxbury was appointed Groundwork UK’s Chief Executive in 2014, having served in a number of other roles in the organisation building national relationships and partnerships, generating income, developing programmes and leading on policy and communications.Read More
Charlotte Österman
February 24, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Charlotte offers tailored support and technical expertise to Social Value UK’s private sector members to help them on their social value journey.Read More
What’s the Best Metric to Drive Down Consumption and Drive Circularity?
February 17, 2022 | be Waste Wise
How effective have carbon tools and targets been in changing service design and performance? Read More
Susan Evans
February 17, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Susan Evans joined Green Alliance in September 2021 as a senior policy adviser, leading the organisation’s work on resource efficiency and the circular economy. Read More
Is There Such a Thing as a Sustainable Consumer? | with Sarah Ottaway
February 10, 2022 | be Waste Wise
What is sustainable consumption, and how do we help individuals, organisations and governments understand and take action to make it a reality for all?Read More
Jen Gale
February 10, 2022 | be Waste Wise
In September 2012, Jen decided it would be a ‘fun’ challenge to spend a year buying nothing new and dragged the rest of her family along for the ride. Read More
