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.

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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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