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Public Health & Quality of Life | 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste

Join us for a month-long dialogue on public health and quality of life as frameworks for waste management in June, 2014.

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WASTE, PUBLIC HEALTH & QUALITY OF LIFE

Sharing solutions through dialogue

Sharing solutions through dialogue

In June, 2014, through four live online panel discussions including some of the leading thinkers on waste, public health and quality of life, we will explore short, medium and long term solutions to waste management for public health and quality of life using examples from selected locations around the world.

Join us to hear about and share your own examples on improving public health and quality of life by improving waste management. To stay updated, subscribe to our monthly newsletter or follow us on social media (top right).

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TOPICS

At be Waste Wise, we want to hear what is relevant and interesting for you. Based on your priorities and suggestions, we are bringing together some of the best waste management experts, thought leaders and practitioners to discuss the following four topics:

Normalising Reuse and Repair in UK

Mar 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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With the growing awareness of the impact we have on the environment encouraging more people to embrace reuse and repair, we see a rapid increase in organisations and business models specialising in pre-loved, repaired, repurposed or rental options from clothing to electrical equipment. But how do we take the next step and normalise individual decision making to look for these items before considering something new?

We’ve gathered together a panel of leaders in this field, Elaine Brown (CEO of the Edinburgh Remakery), Zaqiya Cajee (Founder and Chief Executive of Swop It Up), Andrew Ferguson (Founder and CE of Refashion) and Sarah Ottaway (Sustainability and Social Value Lead, SUEZ) to discuss their activities at the forefront of this space, and how we take this key next step in creating a circular economy.

Elaine Brown, Chief Executive Officer @The Edinburgh Remakery

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. Regularly giving talks to businesses and organisations across Scotland about the concept of reuse, circular economy and social value. She is passionate about creating stronger collaborations between the third sector and public/private sectors.

Andrew Ferguson, Co-founder @Re-Fashion

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. These clothes are then sold through their website, with a portion of the sale price going to charity. It’s a virtuous circle that makes clothes affordable, keeps them out of a landfill, and helps fund good causes. Before starting Re-Fashion, Andrew was an advertising creative director, producing campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Nike, Beats by Dre and Phillips.

Zaqiya Cajee, Founder @Swopitup

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. She talks out about the importance of elevating young voices and not just listening to them but also taking action upon those words. She recently expanded SwopItUp to include a creators program that allows young people to express themselves in creative ways whilst bringing attention to the climate crisis. She continues her work on other environmental campaigns such as Mock COP26 and Teach The Future, which focuses on collaborative global action on climate change and cross-curricular climate education, respectively.

MODERATOR

Sarah Ottaway, Sustainability and Social Value Lead @SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

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Tags: Andrew Ferguson Elaine Brown Sarah Ottaway Zaqiya Cajee

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Acknowledgements: Natali Ganfer is the research consultant for this Public Health & Quality of Life theme, which is a part of the 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste. She structured the panels and helped conduct a survey to choose the panels.

Maria Tsakona is the Curator of this theme. She has been involved since this theme was just an idea and made periodic contributions to making the theme possible. She also helped structure the panels and suggested appropriate panelists for each topic.

We want to thank Mr. N. C. Vasuki (Former President of ISWA) for his continuing contributions to bridge the waste solutions expertise gap worldwide. He inspired the idea of conducting a discussion on the relevance of sanitary landfills in low and middle income countries.

We would also like to thank Dr. Nicolas Escalante (Universidad de los Andes) for continuing to provide inputs through surveys, and Dr. Mario Russo (IPVC, APESB, ISWA), Ann J. Reier (Philips Healthcare), Jonathan Rivin (University of Wisconsin), Nelson Gouveia (Universidade de São Paulo), Andrea Atzori (Bacino PD 2) and Victor Nascimento (INPE) for taking the time to tell us their priorities for this theme.

DIALOGUE

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