The presentations from the APSE Refuse, Recycling, Street Scene, Grounds and Parks Seminar 2019 are available to download below.
Day 1
Session 1
APSE State of the Market Report 2019: Refuse and Recycling
Wayne Priestley, Principal Advisor, APSE
Resource and waste strategy - ‘it’s all about data’
Andrew Woodend, DEFRA
From Chinese fences to floating parks in Rotterdam – what can we do with plastic waste?
Dr. Katrien Steenmans, Lecturer in Law, Coventry University
Session 2
Improving recycling levels in high rise flats
Cathy Cook, London Waste and Recycling Board
Waste transformation – our journey
Colin Parr, Head of Business Services, City of Wolverhampton Council
Session 3
From black to green - implementing 4 weekly residual waste collections’
Jim Espley, Waste Manager, Conwy Borough Council
Going the extra mile – how meeting the commercial customer need has paid dividends
Jon Clubb, Harrogate Borough Council
Session 4: Workshops
Workshop 1
The key health and safety challenges facing the waste sector and local authority services
Joanne Carter & Paul Kloss, Health and Safety Executive
Workshop 2
Future workforce: right skills, competencies and ambitions for a modern resource management sector
Chris James & Mark Hyde, WAMITAB
Day 2
Session 1
Nurturing skills for 21st century parks - Parks Action Group Report
Paul O’Brien, APSE Chief Executive
Operations Spruce-Up and Stop –It
Oliver Sherratt, Head of Environment, Durham County Council
Cutting costs of verge maintenance and increasing biodiversity
Giles Nicholson, Dorset County Council
Session 2
Managing and planning future responses to ash die back
Joe Walsh, Team Leader, Grounds Technical, Manchester City Council
Improving parks through innovative waste management
Stephen Egan, Head of Neighbourhoods & Place, Glasgow City Council
Laying down the law - using a covert enforcement approach
Andrew Lewis, Neath and Port Talbot Council
Session 3
Restoring and developing award-winning parks
Deborah Merrick, Senior Heritage Park Ranger, Dudley Council
‘Our Streets’ - A strategy for environmental quality and community engagement
Beau Stanford-Francis, London Borough of Redbridge