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Cost-Effectively Minimise Waste & Maximise Recycling In Your Business

 

Ensure Full Legislative Compliance, Green Your Supply Chain And Engage Staff To

Cost-Effectively Minimise Waste & Maximise Recycling In Your Business

For A Strong Corporate Image

A One-Day Conference  | The Ibis Earls Court  | 21 October 2008

 

08.30 Registration and Refreshments

 

09.10 Chair’s Opening Address
Susanne Baker, Senior Writer, theENDSreport

 

Understand How EU Revisions To Waste Legislation And Compliance Will Affect UK Business Waste Strategy And How To Convert The Policy Into Action In Your Business

 

09.15 Understand Amendments To The Waste Framework Directive To Ensure Your Business Is Up To Date 
       

• Hear from a government expert on how the UK is thinking of interpreting revisions to the EU Waste Framework Directive
• Appraise the link between the revisions and other EU Directives, how these could affect your businessand how you will need to incorporate these distinctions into your environmental message

Roy Hathaway, Head of Waste Regulation and Business Waste, Defra

09.40 Hear The Environment Agency's Approach To Resource Efficiency: Waste Protocols And The End Of Waste Criteria For Europe

• Gain updates on the impact of the Technical Standards Directive on Waste Protocols and hear how lessons learnt on Protocols work are being built into the revised Waste Framework and what it means in practical terms for UK Business
• Map out a pathway to zero waste and understand how economic costs of waste can become economic opportunities

Martin Brocklehurst, Head of Environmental Protection External Programmes, Environment Agency

 

DUAL PERSPECTIVE

10.05 Explore How To Action The WEEE Directive In A Cost-Effective Way

POLICY FOCUS 

• Get a full picture on the WEEE Directive and how best to comply with it in a business setting, and in an economically viable manner
• Hear from a policy expert on the WEEE and its implications for you

 

Debbie Huntington, Policy Lead, WEEE Implementation Team, BERR

 

INDUSTRY VIEW

Hear how Xerox have implemented widespread remanufacturing and re-use which complies fully with the WEEE regulations, and how it has impacted their waste reduction and finances

Robert Clarke, Environment Executive, Xerox

 

10.30 Morning Refreshments And Informal Networking

 

Maximise Your Recycling Figures And Shrink Your Carbon Footprint By Engaging Staff And Working In Partnership With Government And Contractors For Successful Recycling Strategies

 

11.00  Cohesive Infrastructures, Co-Operative Funding: How Can Effective Partnerships Facilitate Successful, Economically Viable Recycling Strategies?

• Identify the gaps in infrastructure which hinder effective recycling and understand how to work in partnership with government and contractors to develop more joined-up approaches to waste collection and disposal
• Economies of scale: understand what infrastructure is available to allow you to implement effective recycling of small volumes of waste
• Explore the range of funding options available to business, at a national and local level, to implement effective recycling strategies
• The waste iceberg: understand the scale of the hidden costs of recycling and how you can implement a closed-loop recycling strategy which views waste as a revenue stream rather than a hindrance

 

Ben Diggin, Environmental Engineer, Ford

 

11.30 Engage And Inspire Your Employees For A Sustainable Recycling Strategy Which Demonstrably Increses recycling Figures And Shrinks Your Carbon Footprint

• Understand the best methods to transmit your environmental vision to your staff and get them bought in to your recycling strategy
• Drive behaviour change and turn your staff into green ambassadors to reduce waste and energy consumption in the workplace
• Ensure transparency at all stages of your environmental strategy to demonstrate that your company is a responsible green corporate entity
• Hear how Centrica formulated and implemented a highly successful employee engagement initiative which increased recycling figures and minimised their carbon footprint

 

James Rushen, Group Environment Manager, Centrica

 

Landfill Avoidance: Minimise Waste To Landfill Through Alternative Technologies And Engage With The Whole Waste Hierarchy To Reduce Waste Volume

 

12.00 The Landfill Tax Escalator: Understand Its Impact On Your Waste Strategy  And Engage With The Waste Hierarchy As A Whole To Redress The Economic Balance

• Assess the impact of the increase in landfill tax and the scarcity of landfill space as strong incentives for implementing a waste roadmap
• The waste hierarchy: understand that avoiding landfill is as much about not creating waste in the first place as dealing with it, and implement a holistic strategy which will positively impact on your bottom line

 

Jane Milne, Director of Business Environment, British Retail Consortium

 

12.30  Avoid Landfill And Save Money? Segregate Your Waste, Educate Your Staff And Select The Best Technology To Reduce Both Your Waste And Your Disposal Costs

• Understand how best to limit consumption and segregate waste in a business environment and appraise the linkage between the two
• Alternative technologies: what is out there? Explore the range of options available to you and optimise your working relationship with contractors to devise the most cost-effective and appropriate solution to your waste needs
• Hear how EDF Energy successfully reduced the cost of waste disposal by educating their employees and taking a 360-degree view of their waste situation

 

Tim Lawrence, Environment Operations Manager, EDF Energy

 

13.00   Lunch And Informal Networking

 

Identify The Latest Innovative Packaging Materials, Minimise Volume And Work Co-Operatively With Government, Contractors And Staff To Reduce Your Packaging Waste

14.10 Identify Packaging Options Which Retain Recycling Viability To Reduce Your Overall Packaging Waste

• Biodegradable and beyond: appraise what new innovations exist around packaging and the pros and cons of each
• How can you reduce your packaging while ensuring that it retains its viability for recycling and collection?
• Explore the problem of plastics packaging and how to mitigate the public’s perception that it is a major contributor to environmental problems
• Hear how Cadbury reduced their packaging waste through effective employee engagement and co-operative working with contractors to identify alternative packaging types

 

Ian Walsh, Global Head of Environment, Cadbury

 

Break-Out Sessions By Waste Stream: Hear A Case Study And Legislative Update Specific To Your Secot And Brainstorm With Peers To Devise Workable Busines Solutions For Your Waste Needs

Construction Waste	Organic Waste	Workplace Waste	Hazardous Waste
14.40 Site Waste Management Plan Case Study Steve Barnes, Environmental Adviser, Balfour Beatty	14.40 Organic Waste Case Study Peter Mills, Chairman, The Association for Organics Recycling	14.40 Workplace Waste Case Study Rick Hindley, Executive Director, Alupro	14.40 Hazardous Waste Case Study Jean Cox-Kearns, Senior EMEA Take Back Manager, Dell
15.40 SWMP Legislation Focus   Dr Paul Toyne, Head of Sustainability, Bovis Lend Lease	15.40 Renewables Regulations Legislation Focus Speaker To Be Announced From The ENDS Report	15.40 Waste Framework Directive Legislation Focus Charlie Dunmore, Reporter, ENDS Europe Daily	15.40 Hazardous Waste Regulations Gill Ross-Jones, Policy Advisor, Hazardous Waste The Environment Agency
16.05 Discussion Groups	16.05 Discussion Groups	16.05 Discussion Groups	16.05 Discussion Groups

 

Identify Your Company As A Responsible Green Citizen Through Effective, Transparent CSR Strategies Which Prioritise Waste Reduction And Recycling

16.25 Implement Effective Practical CSR Strategies Which Visibly Place Waste Reduction And Recycling At The Core Of Your Corporate Agenda

• Ensure waste reduction becomes central to your overall business strategy: hear a case study example of how energy from waste has become part of a four pillar environment strategy
• Green your bottom line: explore the linkage between implementing a green CSR initiative and profit generation. McDonald's discuss the conversion of its delivery fleet to biodiesel by utilising waste cooking oil and how they are internally greening its company fleet vehicles
• Greening your supply chain to ensure your consumers view your brand as environmentally responsible: gain practical examples of reducing impacts of packaging by redesign and explore how to measure the environmental impacts of your suppliers

Marie-Louise ter Beek, UK Environment Manager, McDonald's Restaurants

 

16.55  Chair’s Closing Comments And Close Of Conference

 

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