Waste disposal is a high-profile issue for local authorities as its third-highest cost and most recognised service. And, as the wider waste and resources sector employs in excess of 100,000 people with a turnover of around £11 billion, there is a lot to play for.
Registration time: 12.00 am
Start time: 1.00 pm
End Time: 3.45 pm
Local authorities with their commercial partners have a key role in reducing environmental impacts while fulfilling an important function in the supply chain collecting and sorting material crucial for reprocessing and manufacturing industries and the UK economy.
The LGA Local Waste Review responds to the emergence of three overarching factors – an extended period of economic downturn; acute pressure on local authorities to deliver with much reduced budgets; and a growing waste and resource sector with potential to significantly increase jobs growth for the UK economy. It will set the agenda for waste prevention; articulate the opportunities to on local growth and jobs; how to increase re-use; and to empower councils to increase levels of recycling and waste diversion whilst reducing cost pressures.
This national launch of the LGA Local Waste Review will discuss and analyse recommendations and will bring together key stakeholders from across the sector to set out the future for waste management.
Who should attend?
- lead members for waste and the environment
- waste and recycling officers and managers
- officers with responsibility for waste and resource management within local authorities, the waste industry and voluntary sector
- government officials with interest in waste and recycling.
Why you should attend
By attending this conference you will:
- hear the key recommendations of the Local Waste Review
- gain an understanding of the key developments and next steps for local government on delivery of waste management
- discuss the role of other waste and resources supply chain operators
- identify the opportunities for greater efficiency across the waste and recycling sector and the opportunities of new ways or working
- have the opportunity to discuss the Review findings and Government reaction.
Speakers
- Cllr Clyde Loakes, Deputy Leader and Environment portfolio holder, London Borough of Waltham Forest
- Lord de Mauley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Matthew Farrow, Director of Policy, Environmental Services Association.
How to book
