Join the first joint UKELA South West and CIWM South West event: Changing gear – Waste, Resources, Innovation, Law and Policy – to be held at the University of Exeter on Thursday, 9 May (hybrid) with sessions running between 10.00 am – 1.15 pm. Attendance in person (with coffee and lunch provided). Hear from speakers from the waste industry, the law, academia and the arts. Programme to follow.
Programme
09.30 Coffee
10.00 Opening Address – Sarah Holmes MCIWM CEnv Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP & CIWM SW Centre Councillor (Chair)
10.10 Session 1 Ben Derrington, Freeths LLP, UKELA – “End of Waste Fundamentals: opportunities for a new approach?”
10.35 Session 2 Prof. Dr David Greenfield FCIWM FRSA CEnv, CIWM Junior Vice President, SOENECS Ltd – “The role the waste and resources sector have in implementing a circular economy”
11.00 Session 3 Joseph Cutts – installation artist, international curator & film programmer "A series of recent accounts into the cycle & formation of electronic waste"
11.25 Coffee
11.45 Session 4 Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard, Lecturer in Sustainable Management and Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law – "Legal Perspectives in the Circular Economy"
12.10 Session 5 Kev Knight, Senior Team Leader, Joint Unit for Waste Crime – " The UK's Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Tackling Organised Crime Groups in the UK Waste Sector"
12.35 Panel Session: an opportunity for delegates online and in person to pose questions to our panel of experts
13.15 Lunch
Meet our speakers
BEN DERRINGTON
Ben is partner at Freeths LLP, he is an environmental, regulatory lawyer and has a masters’ degree in Environmental Analysis & Assessment (Imperial College). Before joining Freeths in 2022, Ben lead the Legal500 Tier-1 ranked Environment Team at his former firm. Ben advises on environmental regulation in the context of crisis events; transactional due diligence and complex compliance matters. His experience of both enforcement matters and non-contentious advice gives him an comprehensive perspective on risk management, while his academic background brings him closer to the technical issues that underpin much of environmental law. Ben advises on waste regulation including complex end-of-waste matters, environmental permitting of waste operations (including defence of enforcement action), energy from waste regulation, pollution incidents, contaminated land, water resources, climate change law, environmental information, Environmental Management Systems, crisis and risk management. Ben also works with our Regulatory Department to provide advice and training on crisis and risk management.
JOSEPH CUTTS
Joseph is an installation artist, international curator & film programmer based in Sheffield. His artistic practice follows his research into everyday substances and technologies, reflecting their complex properties from a source, production, process driven and ecological perspective. In 2023 Cutts was awarded Arts Council funding to support his long-term artistic research into the cycle and formation of electronic waste, leading to curating the international group exhibition and recycling programme Traces of a Cathode, and the current undertaking of a two-year research residency at Forma, London. Cutts has previously worked across the UK and Internationally as: Curator, S1 Artspace; Curator, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Warsaw, and Head Curator of Sheffield DocFest’s Arts Programme (Alternate Realities), a 7-year initiative aimed at studying the social, economical and ecological impact of advancements in modern technology through research, exhibition, touring and commissioning.
KEVIN KNIGHT
Kevin is the Senior Team Leader for the Joint Unit for Waste Crime overseeing his teams investigations into organised crime groups within the UK Waste Sector. He has been employed by the Environment Agency for 6 years and has been on the JUWC since it was formed. Kevin has a Police detective background, spending his last 14 years on the Surrey & Sussex Police Major Crime Team, and having investigated at least 60 murders, including some high profile cases and worked on a quadruple murder in the French Alps.
The Joint Unit for Waste Crime launched in January 2020, after a recommendation from an independent review into Serious and Organised Crime in the waste sector 2018. This was one of ten recommendations. It has developed a multi-agency approach, looking at a variety of intervention and enforcement options to tackle offending, particularly relating to organised crime groups. The function is managed by the Environment Agency, but has overall governance through a multi-agency strategic board. Its enforcement partners are: Natural Resources Wales; Scottish Environmental Protection Agency; National Crime Agency; Police Service of England and Wales; HMRC; Northern Ireland Environment Agency; British Transport Police; National Fire Chiefs Council.
In addition to its enforcement partners, the body also has strategic partnerships with Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and the Environmental Services Association. They share invaluable insight, as well as providing a link to the legitimate waste sector who are negatively affected by serious and organised crime in the waste industry.
Tickets
In person
- UKELA members £20
- Non members £30
- Limited student tickets FREE
Online
- UKELA members £15
- Non members £25
- Students FREE
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