Changing Gear - Waste, Resources, Innovation, Law & Policy

Symposium

7 MAY 2024
University of Exeter, Exeter

Join UKELA South West for a joint event with CIWM South West at the University of Exeter to hear speakers from the waste industry, the law, academia and the arts.

In order of activity, the programmed talks and panel discussions are:

10.00: Opening Address – Sarah Holmes MCIWM CEnv Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP & CIWM SW Centre Councillor (Chair)

10.10: Session 1 Ben Derrington, Freeths LLP, UKELA – End of Waste Fundamentals: opportunities for a new approach?

10.35: Session 2 Prof. Dr David Greenfield FCIWM FRSA CEnv, CIWM Junior Vice President, SOENECS Ltd – The role the waste and resources sector have in implementing a circular economy

11.00: Session 3 Joseph Cutts, installation artist, international curator & film programmer – A series of recent accounts into the cycle & formation of electronic waste

11.45: Session 4 Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard, Lecturer in Sustainable Management and Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law – Legal Perspectives in the Circular Economy

12.10: Session 5 Kev Knight, Senior Team Leader, Joint Unit for Waste Crime – The UK's Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Tackling Organised Crime Groups in the UK Waste Sector

12.35: Panel Session: an opportunity for delegates online and in person to pose questions to our panel of experts

Complete Programme Listing here

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