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Policy Reforms in the UK | with Adam Read

September 1, 2021 |

What do the UK policy reforms mean for consumers, customers and those working in waste & resource management?Read More

Robert Thompson

September 1, 2021 |

ob leads the packaging sustainability strategy for his own brand packaging within the Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team at Co-op Food. Read More

Skills in the Circular Economy | with Adam Read

September 1, 2021 | 1

This panel considers what skills are needed in the resources and waste sector to meet the challenges of the circular economy and decarbonisation.Read More

Amy Bloom

August 23, 2021 |

Amy Bloom is a chemical engineer with consultancy experience across the waste sector, with a broad-ranging technical understanding including industrial, hazardous and municipal streams.Read More

Katie Cockburn

August 23, 2021 |

Katie Cockburn is the Professional Services Director, CIWM and Director of Qualifications and Standards, WAMITAB, with fifteen years of experience in the vocational and technical education space. Over ten of these were spent developing and improving qualification standards in the … Read More

Multi-dimensional Approach to Food Waste Prevention: An Entrepreneur’s Journey | with Gijs Langeveld

July 27, 2021 | 1

A discussion with Benjamin Lephilibert, at LightBlue Environmental Consulting.Read More

Benjamin Lephilibert

July 27, 2021 |

Benjamin Lephilibert is the Founder and Managing Director of LightBlue Environmental ConsultingRead More

Is Reuse the New Recycling? | with Emma Burlow

July 15, 2021 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

Iván Sánchez is an industrial designer, urban cyclist and circular economy lover. Read More

Karla Bolaños Cárdenas

May 6, 2021 |

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 |

Analysing the barriers to the delivery of universal waste collection. Read More

Andre Kuncoroyekti

April 19, 2021 |

Andre Kuncoroyekti is the Chief Delivery Officer at Project STOP Muncar. Read More

Dr Mansoor Ali

April 19, 2021 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 | 2

Join us to hear from Beth Fitzpatrick about OzHarvest’s food rescue activities in Australia.Read More

Bethany Fitzpatrick

March 11, 2021 |

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 | 1

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 | 1

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 |

Nick Rawkins is the CEO and founder of London-based sustainable electronics start-up, RECONO.ME.Read More

Anthony Burns

February 3, 2021 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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