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Rubbish or resource? CBI waste efficiency conference6 December 2007Programme08.30 Registration 09.00 Chairman’s welcome and introduction Jonathan Mead, Corporate Environmental Manager, Dow Corning Ltd 09.05 Keynote address: England's waste strategy Neil Thornton, Director of Sustainable Consumption, Production and Waste, DEFRA
John Cridland, Deputy Director-General, CBI 09.45 Q&A 10.00 Keynote address: European Waste Framework Directive Dr Caroline Jackson MEP, Rapporteur for Waste Framework Directive
European Commission representative (tbc) 10.35 Q&A 10.50 Coffee 11.20 The practitioner's view Steve Lee, CEO, Chartered Institute of Waste Management
Rt Hon John Gummer MP, Chairman of Quality of Life Policy (Conservatives) and Chairman of Veolia Water plc
David Lusher, Executive Director, Commercial, Industrial and Hazardous Division, Veolia Environmental Services 12.10 Panel discussion: will the strategy make a difference? Dr Kirsty McIntyre, UK WEEE Programme Manager, Hewlett Packard Dr Liz Goodwin, CEO WRAP Roy Hathaway, Head of Waste Management, DEFRA David Lusher, Executive Director, Commercial, Industrial and Hazardous Division, Veolia Environmental Services
Mark Rhodes, EHS Services Director, GlaxoSmithKline plc 12.55 Waste reduction in construction Barry Smith, Design & Environment Management, Simons Construction 13.15 Q&A 13.30 Chairman's closing remarks 13.35 Lunch Speaker biographiesNeil Thornton Director, Sustainable Consumption and Production & Waste at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Neil Thornton is currently Director, Sustainable Consumption and Production & Waste at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), responsible for leadership of government policies on waste and promoting environmental sustainability throughout the production lifecycle. In this capacity he is also a non-executive director of WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme). Neil has had a varied career in the government service, serving in the DTI, HM Treasury, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and most recently Defra. Past roles include selling power stations to Hong Kong, bringing Nissan to the UK, private secretary to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, leading the DTI's European business in the early nineties (at the time of German unification, the Maastricht Treaty, and completion of the single market 1992), export promotion to half the world, and animal health policy. View Neil Thornton's presentation (780kb) John Cridland CBE Deputy Director-General, CBI John Cridland was appointed Deputy Director-General of the CBI in 2000 and is responsible for the management of the CBI's policy and membership activities. He studied Indian and African history at Christ's College Cambridge and joined the CBI in 1982. He was appointed Director of Human Resources Policy in 1995, negotiating the UK's first National Minimum Wage, entry into the EU Social Chapter and the Employment Relations Act 1999. Previously he had been Director of Environmental Affairs and played a key role on lobbying for the Environment Act 1995. He is also a member of the Low Pay Commission and the ACAS Council. He was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List 2006. View John Cridland's speech (54kb) Dr Caroline Jackson MEP European Waste Framework Directive Caroline Jackson is a Conservative MEP for the south west region of England. She headed the Conservative list in the Euro-elections of June 1999 and was re-elected in June 2004. She has been an MEP since 1984 and previously represented the constituency of Wiltshire North and Bath. From 1999 to June 2004 she was chairman of the Parliament committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health. This is one of the largest Parliament committees, with 60 members, and one of the main committees involved in negotiating the final form of EU legislation in such key policy areas as GM foods, and measures to prevent global warming. Born in 1946 in Penzance, Cornwall, she was educated in Penzance and at St. Hugh's College and Nuffield College Oxford. She studied classics and history and holds an Oxford Doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on 19th century politics. She is a former research Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Between 1984 and 1999 she was Conservative spokesman on the Parliament's Environment Committee and responsible for reports on directives on landfill policy, product safety, food additives, better protection for package tourists, and on the use of live animals in experiments. She continues as a member of the Environment Committee, and as the Conservative Party Environment Spokesman she is giving a high priority to investigating the reasons for the poor implementation of EU law throughout the member states and to ways of putting this right. Outside politics her principle interests are archaeology, gardening, music, painting and walking the long distance footpaths of England. Karolina Fras Sustainable Development Integration unit, DG Environment, European Commission Karolina was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has a legal background (political science and EU law in Warsaw, graduate of the EU law faculty in the College of Europe). For a couple of years she has been working in Directorate General Environment of the European Commission, Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit, where she has been responsible for several environmental dossiers related to waste – including the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, the Packaging Directive, the PVC and biowaste dossiers. She has taken over revision of the Waste Framework Directive this year. Karolina coordinated the publication of the Commission's report on the implementation of the Packaging Directive, co-authored the Commission's Impact Assessment and report on the 2015 recycling and recovery targets for end-of-life vehicles and prepared the recent report on the implementation of the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive. She co-operates on an everyday basis with the member states and a wide range of stakeholders in the areas of her expertise in order to ensure the correct implementation of environmental waste legislation. Since 2005, she has become a member of the Steering Committee of the Vinyl 2010 Voluntary Commitment of the PVC industry. View Karolina Fras's presentation (1mb) Steve Lee CEO, Chartered Institute of Waste Management Steve Lee joined CIWM as Chief Executive Officer in September 2003. Prior to that he spent 15 years in local government waste management in the West Midlands and Leicestershire, covering everything from landfill acquisition and operation to waste regulation, and then seven years in the Environment Agency as head of its waste function. CIWM continues to grow under his stewardship and now has 7,000+ members. Steve has been in the waste industry for over 25 years and anticipates staying for some time yet. View Steve Lee's presentation (1.5mb) Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer MP Chairman of Quality of Life Policy and Chairman of Veolia Water UK John Gummer was Margaret Thatcher's Chairman of the Conservative Party and for 16 years a minister, becoming Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and then Secretary of State for the Environment. His experience as an international negotiator has earned him worldwide respect both in the business community and among environmentalists. Previous to his ministerial career he was a successful businessman and Chairman of a medium-sized plc. In consecutive years, the BBC unprecedentedly awarded him the title 'Parliamentarian who did most for the environment internationally', while the NGO community called him 'the best Environment Secretary we have ever had'. David Lusher Executive Director, Comercial, Industrial and Hazardous Divison, Veolia Environmental Services David Lusher joined Veolia Environmental Services in October 2001, with 12 years experience in the waste industry working for Caird Group and Shanks Waste Services Ltd. David holds a BSc in environmental sciences, MSc waste management and holds COTC L4A. He is currently studying for an MBA at Leeds University Business School. David is also a school governor. View David Lusher's presentation (1.4mb) Roy Hathaway Deputy Director for Waste Management, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Roy Hathaway has been head of Defra's Waste Management Division since May 2006 and is responsible for policy on waste regulation, at EU and national level. During his career in Defra and previously in MAFF, Roy has worked on a wide range of environmental policy issues – including marine pollution, flood defence, and sustainable development. Dr Kirstie McIntyre UK WEEE Programme Manager, Hewlett Packard Kirstie McIntyre is the Takeback Compliance Manager for HP. Her responsibilities cover all issues concerning the implementation and ongoing development of the European WEEE directive into EU member states and other Europe, Middle East and African countries' laws. She liaises with government, industry partners and peers, supply chain members as well as business customers and consumers on implementation of end-of-life directives and the takeback and recycling of HP's products. Kirstie has worked for a number of years in the strategic development of end-of-life programmes for companies in the electronics sector. She has an engineering doctorate in environmental technology and has published widely on sustainability and supply chain issues. Please see www.hp.com/recycle Dr Liz Goodwin Chief Executive, WRAP Liz is a chemist by background and has a PhD in chemical physics. She held a number of technical and production-related roles with ICI and Zeneca before moving into the environmental field in the chemical industry. Liz joined WRAP in late 2001, and as Director of its materials programmes (paper, glass, plastics, wood, organics, aggregates, tyres and plasterboard) oversaw work to understand and overcome the barriers to market development and promote growth in the use of recyclates. Following a re-organisation in late 2005, Liz took on responsibility for WRAP's work with the construction and manufacturing sectors. She directed the organisation's engagement with the entire supply chain in both sectors to reduce waste and encourage the use of recycled materials and products, as well as identifying opportunities to facilitate major step changes in materials resource efficiency. Liz is now the CEO for WRAP. She continues to drive the current business plan and set new targets for the organisation. Key aims include fostering greater engagement with stakeholders to increase partnership working and ensuring that the link between climate change and waste minimisation and recycling is clearly understood by all WRAP audiences. Mark Rhodes Director of EHS Services, GlaxoSmithKline plc Mark Rhodes joined GSK in 1990 and had a range of roles and responsibilities as part of the corporate EHS team including public EHS reporting, auditing and strategy development. He currently leads the sustainability strategy and policy development in GSK's global sales and marketing organisations – 90 locations, 80 countries, 30,000 employees and turnover exceeding £6bn. Main tasks are influencing GSK's sales and marketing companies to adopt sound EHS policies, strategies and standards – eg product environmental footprinting, energy conservation, product and packaging design, waste minimisation/management, environmental marketing/claims, driver safety, fire and first aid protection, customer information, incident reporting/investigation and data collection. Mark worked in environmental consultancy (Cremer and Warner, now Entec) before joining GlaxoSmitKline in 1990. Major projects included environmental planning for a lead and zinc smelter in India, PCB clean-up at the Channel Tunnel and Piper Alpha, Abbeystead and Kings Cross investigations. View Mark Rhodes's presentation (868kb) Barry Phillips Smith Environmental Manager, Simons Construction Barry Smith has a lifelong interest in the environment and sustainability, and after 20 years in design consultancy, moved to Bovis where he had the opportunity to work on The Earth Centre at Doncaster, and the University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus. In 1999, Barry joined Simons Construction as their Environmental Manager, and has been instrumental in influencing the company's site practices, establishing Simons as a national leader in the field of site waste management. In addition to being a member of the CBI East Midlands Environmental Committee, Barry is also a member of the CBI Waste and Water groups, the Construction Confederation Environmental Forum, the All-party Parliamentary Environmental Group, and is a founder member of the Institution of Structural Engineers Sustainable Construction Panel. View Barry Smith's presentation (530kb) Contact usFor more information please contact:Nicky Curley Senior Events Executive T: 0207 395 8208 F: 0207 497 3646 E: nicky.curley@cbi.org.uk Media Enquiries Members of the media interested in attending or receiving more information about the event should contact The CBI Press Team on 020 7395 8239 or email sophia.fergus@cbi.org.uk If you need free Adobe Acrobat PDF reader software or help with PDF documents, go to the Adobe Accessibility site at http://access.adobe.com Email us if you have accessibility requirements. Click here to go to the events homepage. |
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