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Using 21st century tools to bridge the expertise dissemination gap worldwide Dialog - Leadership - ChangeInna 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 1
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
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 1
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 1
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 1
There is an overload of food waste initiatives, but which are the ones which create impact?Read More
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