Presentations

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

Promoting excellence in public services

APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.