UNEP launch their Global Waste Management Outlook
Professor David C Wilson, the editor-in-chief, presented UNEP’s Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO) at its launch at the ISWA World Congress in Antwerp on Monday 7th September. The GWMO provides the first comprehensive global overview of the state of waste management around the world in the 21st century. It sets out a series of five Global Waste Management Goals and a call for action addressed to individuals, businesses, governments and the international community. There are three main GWMO Outputs, with the main report of around 300 pages being accompanied by an 8-page infographic Summary for Decision Makers and a 2-page flyer for a general audience. All can be downloaded freely.
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...
DCW wins 2024 ISWA Publication Award
DCW won the 2024 ISWA Publication Award for his magnum opus, looking back over his long career at the evolution of waste and resource management since the first environmental control legislation in the 1970s, and reflecting on current and future priorities.
DCW awards his Presidential Medal
DCW awarded his CIWM Presidential Medal for 2018 to Mike Webster, the founder and CEO of the new charity Wasteaid, which is working directly with local communities to tackle the global waste crisis.
DCW hands over CIWM Presidency
DCW handed over to Enda Kiernan at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 13th November 2018. The Gaelic Football team which Enda manages appeared in the lead photo story of the previous day’s Irish Times.
DCW inaugurated as CIWM President
Professor David C Wilson giving his inauguration speech as CIWM President 2017 at Church House Westminster in October 2017. His theme for the year was solid waste management as the forgotten utility service, underpinning modern society.
DCW’s CIWM Presidential Report 2017
DCW commissioned WasteAid UK to prepare a practical toolkit for poor communities on how to make useful products from the low-value plastics and organics in their waste. In its first year, the website was visited 56,000 times, with 7,000 downloads of the toolkit.
ISWA Publication Award 2015
DCW with co-authors Ljiljana Rodic, Andy Whiteman, Costas Velis, Barbara Oelz, Joachim Stretz and Anne Scheinberg, receiving the Award from ISWA Scientific and Technical Committee Chair Antonis Mavropoulos (left), at the ISWA 2015 World Congress in Antwerp on Tuesday 08 September.