Reducing and managing waste in the UK conference

On Tuesday, January 21st next year the Reducing and managing waste in the UK: implementing the Waste Prevention Programme and moving towards a ‘zero waste’ economy conference will be held in Central London.

People of note at the conference include Karen Lepper, Deputy Director, Waste Strategy and Management, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Adrian Judge, Managing Director, Waste & Bioenergy, Green Investment Bank; Dr Andy Rees, Head of Waste Strategy Branch, Department for Environment, Welsh Government and Iain Gulland, Director, Zero Waste Scotland. Dan Cooke, Viridor Waste Management; Richard Gueterbock, Clearfleau; Wayne Hubbard, London Waste & Recycling Board; Edward Langley, Ipsos Mori; Alan Lovell, Tamar Energy; Charlotte Morton, Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association; Chris Sherrington, Eunomia Research & Consulting; Professor Ian Williams, University of Southampton.

The conference is being organized by the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum, with the final venue to be confirmed other than Central London. You can expect a seminar and the speakers listed above, with the seminar specifically covering the following:

Delegates at this seminar will examine the Government’s forthcoming Waste Prevention Programme (WPP) and the next steps in the UK’s efforts to move towards a ‘zero waste economy’.

Planned sessions assess the WPP and the future priorities of waste management - including investment, the issues for local authority and commercial waste markets and how the WPP dovetails with existing waste schemes such as the Climate Change Act, the Courtauld Commitment phase III and the EU Waste Framework Directive.

Further discussion will focus on the schemes being carried out on waste management in Scotland and Wales and the continued development of energy recovery strategies such as Anaerobic Digestion (AD), Gasification and Refuse Derived Fuel - including progress on innovation and finance.

Including keynote presentations from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Green Investment Bank, topics for discussion include:

• Lessons learnt from the 2013 National Waste Management Plan, and other policy initiatives, which could enhance the chances of a successful WPP;
• The challenges facing comparative waste schemes, such as the Towards Zero Waste in Wales and Zero Waste Scotland initiative, and the sharing of best practice across the sector;
• The prospects for new investment within the energy recovery sector;
• Issues linked to the use of AD feedstock, such as the decreasing use of waste materials and increase in specific crop growth which limits biodiversity;
• The impact on UK landfill sites as the potential for international exchanges of refuse become logistically and financially viable.

If you would like to attend then you can book online or call 01344 864796. The conference costs £190 plus VAT. If you would like to learn more then the live agenda is available to view online.