The presentations from the APSE Refuse, Recycling, Street Scene, Grounds and Parks Seminar 2018 are available to download below.
Day 1
Session 1
DEFRA Resource and Waste Strategy
Andrew Woodend, DEFRA
How do we realistically achieve high quality recycling?
Simon Ellin, Chief Executive, The Recycling Association
APSE State of the Market 2018 – Refuse Collection
Paul O’Brien, Chief Executive, APSE
Session 2
Improving recycling rates and customer satisfaction through service re-design
Neil Maver, Waste and Recycling Programme Manager, Rochdale Borough Council
Cleaner streets through the control and presentation of commercial waste
James Crawshaw, Assistant Environmental Health Manager, Glasgow City Council
‘In to Win’ Northamptonshire’s food waste incentive scheme
Vanessa Kelly, Executive Officer, Northamptonshire Waste Partnership
Session 3
How can we recalibrate PFI deals to make them better value and meet current recycling and waste disposal needs?
Andy Mudd, Head of APSE Solutions
The social, environmental and financial benefits of reusing bulky waste
Paul Florentine, Principal Streetscene Officer, South Lakeland District Council & Peter Bradbury, Regional Manager, Right2Work
Undertaking a ‘Neighbourhood Services Blitz’ approach
Matthew Wakelam, Assistant Director for Streetscene, Cardiff City Council
Session 4: Workshops
Workshop 1
The Importance of performance data to the modern street scene manager
Debbie Johns, Head of Performance Networks, APSE
Workshop 2
Helping communities own their Streetscene: Becoming Council champions rather than critics
Maxine Moar, APSE Associate
Day 2
Session 5
Making the economic case for green infrastructure: lessons from abroad
Henry Smith, Projects and Policy Manager, Town & Country Planning Association
Urban GreenUP – Can Nature-Based solutions help to address societal challenges?
Clare Olver, The Mersey Forest Team
The Parks Action Group: an update
Paul O’Brien, Chief Executive, APSE
Session 6
Commercialisation & Volunteers – ‘paying the way’
Eddie Currie, Head of Parks and Open Spaces and Investment Funding, Nottingham City Council
The Importance of Friends Groups to sustaining parks across the UK
Martin Willis, Chair of the Nottingham Open Spaces Forum and trustee member of the NFPGS
Food Growing in Parks
Sarah Williams, Programme Director, Sustain Planning Food Cities Project
Session 7
Reducing greenspace maintenance costs whilst still retaining quality
Craig Willows, Community Services Manager, Stockton-on-Tees Council
Creating the 21st Century Park Manager
Dr Nicola Carroll, Research Consultant and Wayne Priestley, APSE Principal Advisor
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