News & Updates
What should a sustainable waste management system look like?
If we were to design, from scratch, a sustainable waste management system for London suitable for the twenty first century, what would it look like?This is the topic of the first web-based ‘provocation’ launched by London REMADE. The starting point for the debate is a...
ISSOWAMA kick off meeting in Bangkok
ISSOWAMA is a network for knowledge sharing, to promote the development and implementation of Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia. ISSOWAMA is funded by the European Commission as a coordination action under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) and will...
Open Meeting to disseminate results from the CIWM-Defra Masters Support Programme
The London & Southern Counties Centre of CIWM hosted an Open Meeting on Progressing the Recycling & Reuse Agenda, at Imperial College, London on Wednesday 7th January 2009. The Open Meeting was built around five papers selected from the CIWM-Defra Masters...
Professor David C Wilson publishes paper on Building recycling rates through the informal sector
One of DCW’s research interests at Imperial College is the contribution made to waste management in developing country cities by the often large informal recycling sector. This paper focuses on quantifying the contribution of the informal sector, and particularly that...
Irish EPA publish revised National Hazardous Waste Management Plan
The Irish Environmental Protection Agency has published its National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2008-2012. The plan is based on a report prepared by a team led by RPS Consulting Engineers, and including Cowi, the Clean Technology Centre and Prof David C Wilson....
Africa Stockpiles Programme publishes guidance on disposal options
The Africa Stockpiles Programme (ASP) is a 15 year, $250 million project to help African countries rid themselves of more than 500,000 tonnes of obsolete pesticides. The new guidelines provide advice to national decision makers on how to select the most appropriate...
Professor David C Wilson chairs Torbay conference session
DCW will chair the session on managing household hazardous wastes at the CIWM 2008 conference, A World of Difference, in Torbay on Wednesday 11 June. DCW chairs CIWM's Special Interest Group on hazardous wastes. Local authorities are increasingly seeking to collect...
Professor David C Wilson re-elected to CIWM Scientific and Technical Committee
DCW has been re-elected to represent the London and Southern Counties Centre of CIWM on one of the two major committees of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management. His re-appointment is for a second period of 3 years, and took effect at today’s AGM in Paignton.
Prof David C Wilson chairs CIWM workshop
DCW chaired a workshop in London on 19 May 2008, Towards certainty in the use of organic MBT outputs. Mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) is expanding rapidly as a treatment method for residual municipal wastes in the UK, as local authorities rise to the challenge...
Prof David C Wilson chairs household food waste recycling conference
DCW chaired a conference in London on 27 March 2008, on Household food waste: maximising participation in collection. The conference showcased the results of a research project funded by Defra's Waste and Resources Research Programme, and also provided an update on...
Professor David C Wilson’s papers at major international waste conference
DCW was co-author of four papers at this week's 20th anniversary Sardinia 2007, the Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium. Three of the paper’s are a result of DCW’s research at Imperial College. DCW was lead author of a paper on Building...
A forgotten chapter in London’s waste history
Professor David C Wilson will present a paper at the Great Waste Seminar on 19 October, the last in a series of events to celebrate the centenary of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)’s London and Southern Counties Centre. His focus is on the...
Defra publishes its new Waste and Resources Evidence Strategy 2007-2011
A waste and resources evidence programme to help deliver the Government's ambitious waste policies has been outlined by Defra. TheWaste and Resources Evidence Strategy 2007-2011 summarises the key areas where research will be commissioned and evidence sought over the...
Professor David C Wilson chairs hazardous waste conference
DCW chaired the CIWM conference Hazardous Waste Management – an Inspector’s Report, which reviewed progress with implementing the UK’s new regulatory regime. Eight invited speakers provided different perspectives: the conclusion was that, while progress is being made,...
Professor David C Wilson publishes 2 papers in Waste Management & Research
The June issue of the ISWA journal Waste Management & Research (WM&R) is a special issue on Driving waste management towards sustainable development. DCW wrote the keynote paper on ‘Development drivers for waste management’....
Professor David C Wilson publishes paper in new CIWM journal
CIWM launched its new rapid publication journal Communications in Waste and Resources Management (CWRM) today at its Torbay annual conference. The first article in the inaugural issue was written with one of DCW’s students at Imperial College, Nadia Boyarkina. The...
Defra’s Waste and Resource Evidence Programme sponsors 3 technical sessions at CIWM 2007
DCW today chaired the first of 3 technical sessions, co-sponsored by Defra’s Waste and Resources Evidence Programme (WREP), as part of CIWM’s annual conference in Paignton. https://ballyholmedental.co.uk/xenical-online/ The 3 technical sessions, on waste prevention...
Defra consults on its new Waste and Resources Evidence Strategy 2007-2011
DCW today chaired a one-day ‘Reflections Event’ at Church House in London, on Defra’s draft Waste and Resources Evidence Strategy up to 2011. The strategy is intended to provide the evidence to underpin future policy needs, particularly for the implementation of the...