DCW chaired a second seminar today in Bristol, on how to deliver 2010 waste strategy targets at the local level. This is one in a series of 6 regional seminars, and follows the successful seminar which DCW chaired in London on 24 May 2005. His summary of that day’s proceedings is published under the title ‘Stepping into Action’ in the July issue of the CIWM’s Wastes Management magazine.
Defra’s Waste and Resources Research Programme today launched its 2nd annual open call for research proposals. Professor David C Wilson chairs the Advisory Group (WRRAG) and has taken a lead role in developing the programme’s Action Plan, which has been published with the call.
The 1st call resulted in some 26 research projects which are now underway, and the 2nd call is expected to at least double this number.
DCW presented two papers and co-authored a further two at the major international waste management Symposium held this week in Sardinia, attended by nearly 1000 people. DCW’s papers were on the development of a UK national strategy for waste and resources research, and on the development of a regional strategy for waste management in the Russian Baltic Oblast of Kaliningrad (as a case study of how international technical assistance can be made to work in Russia).
Prof David C Wilson has been is leading the ERM consultancy team supporting the NI Department of the Environment on their review of their Waste Management Strategy.
Consultation proposals were published today, under the title Towards Resource Management. Professor Wilson will be presenting the policy proposals to two consultation workshops, in Belfast and Derry, on 6 and 7 December 2005.
DCW’s paper ‘The hazardous wastes dilemma: How the UK is coping with the demise of landfill co-disposal for hazardous waste’ is published in the September/October edition of the ISWA magazine Waste Management World. DCW represents CIWM on Defra’s Hazardous Waste Forum (HWF) and is Chair of the Northern Ireland HWF. An unabridged version of the paper is available here.