News & Updates
New Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy Launched
Professor David C Wilson presented the key policies in the new Strategy ‘Towards Resource Management’ at the official launch in the Long Gallery of the Parliament Buildings at Stormont. DCW led the ERM consultancy team supporting the NI Department of the Environment...
Waste management and the Olympic Games.
An article by DCW and colleagues at Imperial College A tale of two cities compares waste management in the next two Olympic cities. An article by DCW and colleagues at Imperial College A tale of two cities compares waste management in the next two Olympic cities,...
Professor David C Wilson awarded MBE in New Year Honours List
DCW has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the UK’s 2006 New Years Honours List, ‘for services to waste management in the UK and Europe’. The honours list is published twice a year, and is the UK system of recognizing public service....
Professor David C Wilson chairs another Seminar on Waste Strategy Delivery
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...
Defra launch 2nd open call for research proposals
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...
Professor David C Wilson presents at ‘Sardinia 2005’
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,...
Publication of revised draft Northern Ireland Waste Strategy
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...
Professor David C Wilson publishes update on hazardous wastes in the UK
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...
Professor David C Wilson chairs Used Oil Conference
DCW chaired a conference on the future of the waste oil industry in the UK, hosted by Shell on 3 February 2005. The introductory speaker was one of his students at Imperial College, who researched the conflicts between various EU Directives as they affect waste oils....