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Adam Read

EfW Transition Technology or Yesterday’s Technology | with Adam Read

September 12, 2023 |

In this webinar, our guest panel discusses the future of energy from waste technologies, particularly those dealing with thermal treatment. Read More

Potential of the Waste & Resource Sector in Delivering Avoided Emissions | with Adam Read

June 2, 2023 |

This panel explores how we can not only make the link between sustainable resource management and climate change but also consider what activities, interventions and policies governments, businesses, and organisations should take now to ensure that planned green transitions across a range of sectors and regions are deliverable – can we really decarbonise industry without effective waste management?Read More

Tackling Consumption, Can We Break the Linear Model?

March 17, 2023 |

The session looks at where we are successfully transitioning from traditional leaner models of production, consumption, and waste to a more circular model of green design, reuse, refill, repair, and leasing, where consumers can make good choices and the systems are accessible, affordable, and performing.Read More

Innovating Our Way Out of the Global Waste Crisis | with Adam Read

June 14, 2022 |

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

How Environmental is Social Value? | with Adam Read

February 24, 2022 |

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

What’s the Best Metric to Drive Down Consumption and Drive Circularity?

February 17, 2022 |

How effective have carbon tools and targets been in changing service design and performance? Read More

COP26 – What is the Role of the Waste and Resources Sector in Delivering Net-Zero? | with Adam Read

November 1, 2021 |

This webinar explores a range of issues in the run-up to COP26, focusing on how the critical role of the resources & waste sector has been overlooked in the planning for the global carbon event.Read More

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

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

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

Behaviour Change and Recycling Contamination | with Adam Read

July 20, 2020 | 1

This webinar discussed common contaminants in recycling collections (suburbia, high-rise and rural), and reflect on campaigns and programmes that have attempted to limit contamination.Read More

Behaviour Change and Recycling Contamination – Insights and Reflections

July 20, 2020 | 1

Adam Read reflects on the webinar on behavioural change and recycling contamination which he moderated. Read More

Adam Read Interviews David Palmer-Jones

June 12, 2020 |

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

Design for Reuse/ Repair | with Adam Read

April 6, 2020 |

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

Facing up to Climate Crisis: What are We Doing About It? | with Adam Read

March 2, 2020 |

Moving from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to local ‘climate crisis’ talks, it’s time to stand up and make a change.Read More

Chemical Recycling 101 | with Adam Read

February 3, 2020 |

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

The Changing Global Commodity Markets

October 22, 2019 |

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

Marine Plastic Pollution – Sources, Forces and Courses of Action

July 24, 2019 | 1

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

Reflections on Sustainable Resource Management in Developing Economies

April 24, 2019 |

Novel approaches to ensure waste management in poorer countries is sustainable.Read More

2015 Global Waste Survey

April 1, 2015 | 1

Please take the 2015 Global Waste Survey to tell us what you want to know or discuss about waste in 2015.Read More

Communicating About Waste To Create An Engaged Global Community

March 5, 2015 |

Inaccessible Expertise

In 2013, I was at World Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to attend a forum on waste management. That day, in a single room, I was surrounded by so many world class experts that I felt I was … Read More

Food waste disposers can mitigate climate change and reduce costs

May 22, 2014 | 1

For climate change mitigation, food waste disposers are better than composting, waste-to-energy and landfilling. Their wider adoption calls for integrated decision making encompassing solid waste management and wastewater.Read More

Food waste disposal units – is the jury still out?

April 21, 2014 | 2

Watch Prof. Adam Read, Dr. Tim Evans and Michael Keleman discuss the relevance and sustainability of food waste disposal units.Read More