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RECENT NEW MEMBERS
Later in the year new RRF members included:
- Portsmouth City Council
- Ecolateral
- Ray Georgeson Resources Limited
- Integrated Skills Limited
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)
As 2007 and drew to its inevitable close, we hailed the arrival of new members:
- Luton Borough Council
- Waste Management and Recycling Association of Singapore (WMRAS)
- GreenIT
- Link2Energy
- John Lea Associates
Also, RRF was joined by:
- Flemish Waste Agency OVAM
- Cawleys Waste Management
Early in October the excellent
The Forum has also just welcomed in:
- CCR Logistics Systems AG - a full service provider in the field of logistics networking, consulting and software solutions.
- Sustainable-Bio Limited - their Biotel process offers a cost competitive, environmentally preferable method of managing discarded food waste
- Imperial College London
Both these fine organisations joined in September.
Recent new recruits to the swelling ranks of RRF membership include the University of Plymouth.
The Swedish University of Boras has also become a member of the Forum.
In September a group of excellent organisations joined the Forum:
- Università di Bologna - Polo Scientifico Didattico di Rimini (Italy)
- Research Institute of Building Materials, Brno (Czech Republic)
- University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka)
- Center for Pollution Control and Energy Technology, Pondicherry University (India)
- Energy Answers International (Ireland)
As August 2007 drew to an end Ipsos-Mori joined the Forum, as did World Wide Waste Limited, a group linked to Imperial College London.
During the summer the most recent new members for the Forum are:
- GreenMech Ltd in Warwickshire, dedicated to the development, manufacture and marketing of Wood Chippers and Green Waste Shredders.
- Lochaber Environmental Group in Fort William, Scotland. LEG is a commnicty composting project.
- Palmerston North City Council, New Zealand An innovative local authority at the south end of the north island.
- Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Massey University's Zero Waste Academy is at the leading edge of this discipline.
- Zero Waste South Australia (ZWSA) in Adelaide, Australia - the South Australian government established this to enable State and Local Government to work together for waste avoidance and reduction, waste reuse and recycling and waste disposal.
- KESAB environmental solutions in Adelaide, Australia - works to inspire the South Australian Community to restore, preserve and improve the total environment through active participation in dynamic programmes.
- Eco Waste Pty in Randwick, Australia Eco Waste is an innovative environmental ideas and project company in New South Wales.
During February 2007, the Forum welcomed into RRF membership:
We also welcome in to the RRF, the Open University's Integrated Waste Systems department and the newly established Elaine Kerrell Environmental Consultancy.
The first two new members of the Forum for 2007 are Birmingham City Council (with a smart new 20-year waste strategy) and Covanta Energy Limited - the largest provider of energy from waste in the world. A hearty welcome to them both.
At the end of October the Scottish Executive - Waste Strategy Team joined RRF.
Mid-October and the Scottish Recycling Institute have joined the Forum.
A good week for the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) - deputy CEO Chris Murphy appeared on BBC's Rogue Traders, and CIWM joined RRF.
RRF was pleased to wecome Global Renewables UK into membership at the beginning of October.
The Green Alliance has joined the Forum at the end of September.
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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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FORTHCOMING RRF EVENTS
- BIOPLASTICS - AUTUMN (London)
- SECONDARY RECOVERED FUEL (SRF) - NOVEMBER 6 (London)
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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