RRF Conference archive

The Resource Recovery Forum has run several events each year for more than a decade. These are designed to be topical, worthwhile and interesting.

The most recent of these are:

• SOLID RECOVERED FUEL (SRF) - November 6, 2008 (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 hear from expert speakers from across Europe. More information.
• BUSINESS BENEFITS OF RESOURCE EFFICIENCY July 2, 2008. London. Oakdene Hollins presentation on a research report on business benefits of resource efficiency . At RRF's annual general meeting, members received an illuminating presentation from Dr Peter Lee of Oakdene Hollins consultancy, who led 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. More information. 
• 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. More information.
• MAXIMISING PARTICIPATION IN FOOD WASTE COLLECTION 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 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. More information.