There may be trouble ahead… but we asked for it

Steve Lee, chief executive of CIWM, explores some of the critical issues affecting the UK’s waste management sector and argues that progress always comes at a price

After over a decade of encouraging progress, waste management in the UK is at something of a watershed and we could be forgiven for feeling that the way ahead looks like many of our roads today – full of potholes. In parallel with the economy, we are going through a period of uncertainty, caught between a number of different and, on occasion, contradictory forces.

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FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD - A CASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INDIGESTION?

 By Peter Jones, Ecolateral

In terms of mass, global warming potential (GWP) and ethical issues, the food supply chain impacts on our species’ lives as much as it did 4000 years ago, but in today’s world the economic impact in terms of financial and time cost have been subjugated to the benefits of scale economies and scientific approaches to yield improvement. With a global population three times the level it was at the time when today’s retirees were born, mass of demand is once more becoming an issue ,not due to Malthusian fears on the supply side but, rather, due to demands for improved supply and output side resource efficiency, not least in terms of global warming potential.

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Innovation and Technology For The Future

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By Norman Thoday - CEO of Dennis Eagle

Increasing landfill taxes, rising fuel costs and tightening operational budgets, along with the Government’s proposals to make Britain one of the ‘greenest’ countries in the world, are all contributing  to a growing pressure to change the way we collect waste, but how is the industry going to meet these demands? Norman Thoday, managing director of Dennis Eagle, discusses the latest innovations and developments that the waste industry is working on and what is important to this vital industry.

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