Moustaches grown at Newport Paper for Movember
Alan Peers (commercial director), Steve Thorne (regional manager for the South West/Wales), Raziq Shafiq (regional manager West and North West) and Michal Yannakoyorgos (regional manager Scotland and Ireland) staved off shaving for the month of November to raise money for the charity.
Commenting on the experience, Steve Thorne said: It was kind of special to me as I had lost my father to cancer in 2006 and know of a number of friends and colleagues affected by the disease.
A further 50 will be donated to the charity on behalf of Mr Thorne if he keeps his moustache until mid-December!
Oakdene Hollins appoints principal analyst
Dr Julian Parfitt has been appointed principal resource analyst at Oakdene Hollins, a business consultancy firm working to support change towards using more sustainable products and processes. It is hoped Dr Parfitt will strengthen Oakdenes UK and international work in the food sector.
Dr Parfitt has previously worked as principal analyst at WRAP and as research and technical director at consultancy Resources Futures. He had recently completed a review of global food waste for the governments Global Food and Farming Futures project, which was published in 2010.
Explaining his decision to join Oakdene Hollins, Dr Parfitt said it was to pursue my research interests in the resource efficiency arena notably concerning food wastes both in the UK and internationally.
New EuPR president calls for plastics landfill ban
Ton Emans has been elected as the new president of the European Plastics Recyclers (EuPR) during The Plastics Recyclers Annual Meeting 2011 which took place in Barcelona on November 16-17. EuPR is the professional representative body of plastic recyclers in Europe.
In his new position as president of EuPR Mr Emans, who currently works as managing director of CeDo, a supplier of disposable household products produced from polyethylene and aluminium, said he plans to keep plastic waste within Europe and increase the sorting quality for the input streams of recyclers.
Mr Emans said: In the long term EuPR will push two main objectives. First, a European wide ban on landfill for plastics waste. Second a significant increase of mechanical recycling targets for plastics in various legislations. These two actions are a necessity in order to enable a shift in society towards a greener economy and to create green growth.
SITA UK expands with fibre sector manager
SITA UK has appointed a dedicated fibre sector manager to help expand its expertise in the trading fibres such as paper and cardboard.
Phil Weaver has worked in a variety of commercial and technical functions within the recycling industry in which he developed applications and end markets for recovered products. In his new role he will be responsible for overseeing the development of the fibres trading function with SITA UK, as well as sales, marketing and delivery to the customer.
Mr Weaver said: SITA UK has a range of facilities across the country that deal with thousands of tonnes of fibres on an annual basis. I am looking forward to the challenge of adding even more to that and increasing the awareness of the fibres recycling industry to business.
Repic appoints head of environmental affairs
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and producer compliance schemeRepic,has appointed Sarah Downes as environmental affairs manager.
Ms Downes left her position of head of sustainable consumption and production at the North West Regional Development Agency to join Repic. In her new role she will be working with industry stakeholders to increase the efficiency of the current UK WEEE system by focusing on building structural networks and encouraging communication between stakeholders to promote development of WEEE recycling.
Commenting on the appointment Dr Philip Morton, chief executive of Repic, said: Sarahs expertise in waste policy and sustainable consumption will help us to stay at the cutting edge of legislative changes and allow us to work productively with our partners to reduce leakage from the WEEE recycling system.
Water chairman receives livery honour
At the event, held last month in Londons Drapers Hall, the Master Water Conservator, Barry Dennis, director general of the Environmental Services Association, admitted Mr Philip Fletcher CBE, the chairman of water regulator OFWAT, as an Honorary Freeman of the Company.
At a banquet following the ceremony, the companys Thames warden, Professor Peter Matthewsproposed the toast to the guests to which His Honour Judge Richard Hayward responded.
For more information about the Worshipful Company, click here: Water Conservators.
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