The Southern Sustainability Partnership
Spring Conference
12th April 2018 . 8.30am to 4.30pm
Ageas Bowl (Southampton)
Presenters and Conference Topic to be announced shortly.
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In the meantime, do take a look at our 2018 Conference Lineup
2018 Waste Forum
Driving Change. Driving Zero Waste to Landfill. Driving Waste Cost Reductions and Reduced Environmental Impact
Waste is only a word for materials we don’t yet have a use for. What if waste could stand for a second chance at life and in doing so increase profitability and reduce the impact of your organisation?
2018 Presenters
Margaret Bates Professor of Sustainable Waste Management at Northampton University and recently outgoing President of Chartered Institute of Wastes Management - CIWM
Topic: On the go Packaging - The Reality and the Myths
Recently appearing on BBC Breakfast News on the subject of food waste, Margaret is Professor of Sustainable Waste Management at Northampton University in the Environmental Science Department and a past President of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management - CIWM.
She has been involved in wastes management for over 25 years and undertook her PhD on landfill microbiology.
Margaret is a Chartered Wastes Manager and a Chartered Environmentalist and has advised a range of governments on wastes management issues.
She appears in the Hot 100 (Resource Magazine) most influential people in wastes management and acts as an expert for a range of local and national organisations and television. Margaret is on the editorial board for Communications in Waste and Resource Management and Wastes and Resource Management. Reviewer for Waste Management Journal, Waste Management Research, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Science of the Total Environment, Communications in Waste and Resource Management, and Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability.
Assessor for EPSRC, DEFRA, Technology Strategy Board, WRAP, EU FP7, British Council and other grant applications in the areas of wastes management, eco-innovation, resource efficiency and security. PhD examiner for Universities of Abertay, Aberystwyth, Hull, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Nottingham, Imperial College, Open University and Cranfield. Plus, Advisory Group for Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group. Linkedin
Larry Grant is the Founder and CEO of Eden Eco Solutions Ltd. Having worked for over 20 years as a Management Consultant in the Asset Management and Private Equity sectors Larry has a keen insight into how the drive for profits has historically dictated the majority of business decisions. He believes that this is changing, however, and that businesses are increasingly recognising that with heightened consumer awareness and concern about green issues, demonstrating a care for how their policies and practices impact our fragile planet is actually important to their bottom line. Eden Eco Solutions maintains a broad overview of emerging technologies and provides consulting services to assist clients in the UK and beyond to implement the best composite solutions for reducing costs and reducing their environmental impact in the areas of Waste, Water and Renewable Energy. Linkedin
Gerrard Fisher QSA Partners
Waste Projects discussed from the Circular Economy Perspective
Gerrard is a member of the team of leading circular economy business consultants at QSA Partners who use strong commercial, financial and sustainability expertise, alongside practical and experienced project management to develop and implement successful circular business models. Gerrard works hands-on with businesses to help them take innovative business propositions to commercial reality, using the organisations combined 50 years experience in low carbon economics, resource efficient business, innovation and financial modelling.
Gerrard loves working on business model change – helping businesses create more value, profit and stability by embracing the circular economy. His background is in manufacturing, business management, resource efficiency and circular business models. Linkedin
Stuart Hayward-Higham of leading recycling and waste giant, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, is responsible for non-bidding emerging development activities in SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, delivering tools, techniques and information to meet customers’ business imperatives. This includes delivering new solutions or making successful niche activities mainstream through to market intelligence, market modelling and forecasting.
In addition to his SUEZ duties, Stuart is a director for Recoup (plastics recycling charity) and the Anaerobic Digestion and Bio-resources Association and is the UK senior management representative for SUEZ UK with Terracycle UK. Further, he has provided expert advice to the EU on relevant elements of the circular economy and is an H2020 expert assessor. He is chair of the Environmental Services Association (ESA) Bioresources committee and member of the ESA renewable energy committee, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) Organic recycling steering group and gasification and Pyrolysis committee. Stuart also regularly guest lectures at a number of UK universities.
Main activity themes include harnessing waste as a resource, energy and bio-fuels manufacture, sorting, extraction and value enhancement for waste mix resources and the increasing introduction of a circular economy based products and solutions. Linkedin
Craig Shaw Advetec Holdings Limited
A breakthrough in dealing with Waste on and off-site
Craig is founder and CEO of Advetec Holdings Ltd, a worldwide company providing environmental solutions to deal with liquid & solids waste. Projects range from cleaning industrial wastes from food manufacturing through to removing heavy metal contamination from the Baltic Sea. The company provided liquids & solids waste solutions for the 2012 Olympics in London. Advetec was the selected bidder for MOD Type 26 warship waste handling solutions and provides lake contamination solutions for Paraguay and manufacturer of consumer-based solutions to high street branded retailers. Advetec is the inventors of the ground-breaking bio-thermic reduction technology behind the XO waste digesters system. Linkedin
Amy Munro Land Rover BAR
The challenges of a Sustainability for the America‘s Cup and introducing the Seabin
Amy’s role is the Sustainability Manager for Land Rover BAR, the British Challenge for sports oldest trophy, America’s Cup.
Her role involves working with the team to embed sustainability through three target areas: Driving Innovation, Inspiring Excellence and Smarter Futures.
As the first organisation to get on board the Seabin Project by Indiegogo, a revolution in ocean cleaning technology which is helping to create cleaner oceans with healthier marine life, Amy will discuss the project and how it is helping create a better way of life for everyone and every living thing. LinkedIn