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RECENT NEW MEMBERS
James Cropper PLC joined RRF in November. So did the fine consultancy UK Resource Management.
In October VT Environmental Engineering joined the Forum, as did Frith Resource Management.
In September quality supermarket Sainsbury joined the Forum.
We welcomed PlasticsEurope, which represents the interest of the plastics manufacturing industry in Western Europe, into membership in August.
Publishing enterprise Resource Media UK joined RRF at the end of July.
In July, we welcomed these two discerning organisations into membership:
Later in the year new RRF members included:
During the spring, new arrivals included:
- Novamont
- Edge (UK)
- Amey Infrastructure
- Nakheel Asset Management (UAE)
Early in 2008 new members of the Forum include:
- The European Commission Environment Directorate
- King's College London
- Ptarmigan PR
- Flinders Bioremediation (Aus)
- Ipsos MORI
- UK Government's Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly DTI)
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Welcome to the online home of the Resource Recovery Forum
The Resource Recovery Forum is an international non-profit network of
more than 330 organisations interested in sustainable waste management
- making better use of waste that is produced. The Forum's aims
are simple.
RRF was established in 1997 and its membership is drawn from: industry; local & national government; international institutions; academia; voluntary sector; waste management businesses; NGOs, and; consultants. RRF has member organisations from Canada and the USA across many European countries to Australasia. From Aberdeenshire Council and AEA Technology to Yale University and Yorkshire Forward they are listed here (with direct web-links).
RRF benefits from the members' Advisory Committee, a group of 30 volunteers who are elected annually from the membership. To see the list of 2008 Advisory Committee members, follow this link.
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RRF EVENT - Solid Recovered Fuel
SOLID RECOVERED FUEL (SRF) - NOVEMBER 6 (London) - This international conference, sponsored by the European Recovered Fuels Organisation (ERFO) brought together current and potential users and producers of SRF. The event enabled local authorities, waste management companies, energy producers and energy users to listen to and discuss SRF with expert speakers from across Europe. Topics covered included:
- European perspective on SRF
- UK policy needs and perspective on SRF
- NGO view of SRF
- Role of Fuel Standards
- UK experience of SRF production
- Carbon footprint of SRF production and use
- Market development for SRF in Europe
- Industry sector and country experience of SRF from Europe
- Permitting SRF
- Financial incentives for SRF
- UK market development
You can download a programme for this event from here. The SRF conference presentations are linked to the speakers' names below. Or you can download a full compilation (7 MB) containing all presentations from here.
Bernd Gawlik from the European Commission addresses 130 delegates to the RRF-ERFO conference on Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF).
Session 1 – Keynotes
- Welcome: Bernard Lanfranchi, European Recovered Fuel Organisation (ERFO) - 0.1 MBA
- European Perspective - Bernd Gawlik (European Commission, JRC) - 0.5 MBThe UK
- Perspective – SRF: a waste management tool for renewable energy - John Burns (Defra) - 0.5 MB
- SRF - an NGO perspective - Christian Tebert (ECOS & EEB) - 0.3 MB
Session 2 – Production of SRF
Session 3 – The benefits of SRF: Case Studies
- European case studies - Bjorn Thon (Veolia) - 0.5 MB
- SRF in a UK power utility – Fibre Fuel at Slough Heat & Power - John Watson (Scottish & Southern Energy) - 0.7 MB
- SRF in the UK cement industry - Neville Roberts (Cemex) - 0.3 MB
- SRF in a German power plant - Thomas Glorius (Remondis) - 0.7 MB
- SRF in the German food industry - Thomas Hegner (Nehlsen) - 0.6 MB
- SRF in the Finnish paper industry Ari Frantsi (Stora Enso) - 0.7 MB
Session 4 – The development of SRF in the UK
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Resource Recovery Forum - annual general meeting
Oakdene Hollins presentation and research report on business benefits of resource efficiency
At RRF's annual general meeting (July 2, 2008), members received an illuminating presentation from Dr Peter Lee of Oakdene Hollins consultancy, who has led some pioneering research into a project for Defra to place an economic value on the benefits available to businesses from improvements in resource efficiency that require negligible capital investment.
The study investigated the benefits from improving the use of water and energy as well as reducing waste. The work, undertaken in cooperation with accountants Grant Thornton, has been published and provides a mine of data that includes a regional breakdown as well as identifying where the largest opportunities arise by business sector.
This study estimates the total value of low cost / no cost resource efficiency savings within the range of £5.6 bn to £7.4 bn (Mean = £6.4 billion). This equates to 0.6% of UK GVA and 1.9% of UK gross operating surplus (profit).
Copies of Peter's presentation Business Benefits of Resource Efficiency (PDF, 1MB) are available from this link.
Copies of the full Oakdene Hollins report Business Benefits of Resource Efficiency(1.6 MB) can be downloaded from here. |
RRF Conference
ALTERNATE WEEKLY COLLECTION (AWC)
July 7, 2008
London
New research by Ipsos Mori and case study experiences illuminated this controversial policy area
Increasingly councils are considering the possibility of collecting residual household waste every two weeks. As recycling rates are pushed higher, with separate collection systems being rolled out for recyclables, the volume of residual waste declines. Where local authorities introduce collection of food and garden waste, the nature and arisings of the remaining garbage become ever more suited to less frequent collection.
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Some waste collection authorities have found AWC systems work well, are acceptable to residents and offer economic and environmental benefits. Elsewhere, there is vigorous opposition to what is portrayed in the media as an invidious, penny-pinching reduction in services. Residents become hostile, some are prepared to pay private sector entrepreneurs for restoration of the missing week's collection.
This one day event by the Resource Recovery Forum and Ipsos Mori took a detailed look at the differing attitudes towards the fortnightly collection of residual waste, including:
- What makes AWC work well
- What residents really believe about necessary service provision
- How opposition to AWC can be assuaged
- How a local authority can implement effective, workable AWC schemes
The event will hear from experts in the field, with case studies from local authorities. There will be opportunities to discuss all relevant issues, meet with policy-makers, practitioners and advisers to discuss the merits and potential pitfalls of going down the path of fortnightly waste collection.
Follow these links to:
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Ipsos MORI's Phil Downing
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Dominic Hogg from Eunomia provided the conference's Keynote Address.
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AWC event
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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RECENT RRF EVENTS 2007 & 2008
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Conference: Maximising participation in food waste collection systems:
March 27, 2008
During 2007 an important study was led by consultants Brook Lyndhurst with Waste Watch, and commissioned by the Waste and Resources Evidence Programme of the UK Government's environment Department, Defra. The study is now complete and the Resource Recovery Forum is arranging to disseminate the results.
The main aim of the project is to provide actionable research to help:
- waste authorities and contractors to design services and communications campaigns for maximum impact on public participation in food waste collections
- strategic agencies and policy makers to inform their own communications campaigns and funding programmes
- policy-makers and the waste industry to understand barriers to the development of treatment infrastructure which could arise from what the public is willing to do
The project addressed:
- householder motivations and barriers to using food waste collections
- effects of scheme design on participation
MORE INFORMATION FROM HERE
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The most recent major RRF conference FOOD, CONSUMERS & RESOURCE EFFICIENCY (London - November 6-7, 2007) was sponsored by the following excellent organisations:
- WRAP
- Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network
- Food Processing Faraday
The event took place in London at BERR Conference Centre (BERR is the Government agency formerlyl known as DTI) on November 6 - 7, 2007 in London.
To download a copy of the brochure and programme, follow this link.
More information is available on materials presented at the conference by following this link. |
RRF operates a great news service, delivered daily (up to 1,000 items pa, no ads, no attachments, just useful and topical information on policy & practice from around the world) or as weekly digests. A single member organisation can add unlimited numbers of employees to this fine facility. Also, the items are archived online and are fully searchable - see this link to try it out.
Please consider joining the RRF, and becoming an active part of the world-wide
community with this shared interest. If you would like more information
on joining the Resource Recovery Forum, then follow this
link. If you would like to join the Forum directly , then here
is the application form.
  
The RRF is impartial, unbiased and independent. Members of the RRF also
receive a free subscription to Warmer
Bulletin, the acclaimed international journal on sustainable waste
management & resource recovery.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SEE MUCH MORE....
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