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Special issue of Waste Management & Research on Waste Prevention

Friday, 12 March 2010

Professor David C Wilson is guest editor of a special issue of the international journal Waste Management & Research on Waste Prevention, published in March 2010. The special issue features eight papers, including four derived from a major synthesis review of the available evidence on household waste prevention, carried out by Defra’s Waste and Resources Evidence Programme (WREP). Professor Wilson managed the review on behalf of WREP and is a co-author of each of the WMR papers.

Professor Wilson has served on the editorial board of Waste Management & Research (WMR), the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)’s peer-reviewed journal, for most of the time since its launch in 1984. In their editorial, written with Nick Blakey of Defra (the English Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and Jens Hansen, the current editor-in-chief of WMR, they argue that waste prevention, which has sat at the top of the ‘waste hierarchy’ for more than 30 years, is an idea whose time has now come. Three particular drivers for waste prevention are all now becoming political priorities: climate change, the sustainable use of natural resources and, particularly in the current recession, the need to cut costs.

The lead article in the WMR special issue is Household waste prevention – a review of evidence, co-authored by Jayne Cox, Sara Giorgi, Veronica Sharp, Kit Strange, David C Wilson and Nick Blakey. This introduces the overall synthesis review, and focuses on three particular aspects – engaging consumers and households to rethink their behaviours; the role of particular stakeholders in enabling households to take action (e.g. in reuse); and what policy measures can be used to encourage household waste prevention. The conclusions are presented as answers to a number of questions framed at the outset of the review, jointly with the Defra policy teams.

Two further papers examine important aspects of waste prevention. Delivery and impact of household waste prevention intervention campaigns (at the local level) reports on evidence from local authorities. Methods to monitor and evaluate household waste prevention addresses the difficult challenge of how to measure waste that you do not generate. Both of these papers were co-authored by Veronica Sharp, Sara Giorgi and David C Wilson. The special issue concludes with an essay reflecting on evidence regarding Future waste growth, modelling and decoupling, which led to a number of insights on how best to promote household waste prevention. This paper was co-authored by David Fell, Jayne Cox and David C Wilson.

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Waste Regulation Award

The UK Chartered Institution of Wastes Management’s Waste Regulation Award 2012, for the best paper published in 2011,has been won by Rachel Cahill, Prof David C Wilson and Prof Sue Grimes. The winning paper was 'Extended producer responsibility for packaging wastes and WEEE - a comparison of implementation and the role of local authorities across Europe', published in Waste Management & Research. DCW received the award on behalf of the authors at the CIWM Awards 2012 ceremony at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square on 8 November, from the CIWM President John Skidmore and TV presenter Julia Bradbury.

James Jackson 2010

The UK Chartered Institution of Wastes Management’s James Jackson Award 2010 for Best Paper has been won by Prof David C Wilson. The winning paper was Household waste prevention – a review of evidence, published in Waste Management & Research, and resulting from a major evidence review which DCW managed for Defra. Shown from left are his co-authors Sara Giorgi, Jayne Cox, Veronica Sharp, Derek Greedy (CIWM President), Kathie Tiffany (Kit Strange’s daughter), David C. Wilson and Nick Blakey. The award ceremony on 18 October 2011 was tinged with sadness, because one of the co-authors, Kit Strange, died suddenly in August, 2011. DCW and Nick Blakey had previously won the 2007 award.

Habitat book cover

UN-HABITAT launched its flagship book on solid waste at the World Urban Forum in Rio in March 2010. This book provides a fresh perspective and new data on one of the biggest issues in urban development, showcasing the good work that is being done on solid waste by cities around the world. The book has been written by an international team led by Professor David C Wilson, Anne Scheinberg of the consultancy/ NGO Waste and Dr Ljiljana Rodic of the University of Wageningen, both in the Netherlands. It is published by Earthscan and available via the Waste website.

Professor David C Wilson receiving his insignia as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) form the Prince of Wales, at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 2006. Photo: BCA Films

Book image

Leslie Wilson’s latest book for (young) adults Saving Rafael is set in Berlin during the second world war. It has been nominated for the 2010 Carnegie medal and shortlisted for the 2010 Lancashire Children's Book Award. It was published in May 2009 by Anderson Press. www.lesliewilson.co.uk

James Jackson Award

Professor David C Wilson, with co-authors Nadine Smith and Nick Blakey of the Waste Evidence Branch in Defra, with the James Jackson Award for the best paper in 2007, at the CIWM Professional Awards Ceremony on 16 May 2008. They won the award for their paper Using research-based knowledge to underpin waste and resouces policy, which was published in a special issue of the ISWA peer-reviewed journal Waste Management & Research in June 2007, on Driving waste management towards sustainable development. The authors commented: ‘We are particularly pleased to have won this award with a policy rather than a technical paper. We hope that it will help to raise the profile of the need to provide sound evidence and to use that effectively in the policy process.’

Prof David C Wilson presents the policies and proposals in the revised Northern Ireland waste strategy to a consultation workshop in Belfast on 6 December 2005. DCW led the ERM consultancy team supporting the NI Department of the Environment on their review of the Waste Management Strategy, which was originally launched in March 2000. The new Strategy Towards Resource Management was launched at Stormont on 30 March 2006.

Prof David C Wilson was a delegate to the 7th Conference of Parties of the Basel Convention in Geneva (25-29 October 2004). He represented the UK in the working group discussing control levels for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in wastes, as required to make operational the new Stockholm Convention on the Control of POPs.