Environmental not-for-profit group Waste Watch is coordinating the new Waste Watch Education Network and aims to formally launch it at the National Waste Educators Conference on December 4.
We set up the network after realising there was no channel at the national level for all the committed waste educators out there.
Damien Morris, Waste Watch
The aim is to get waste professionals, such as local authority recycling officers and employees of waste management companies, to link up with education professionals and share information as well as best practice techniques.
The organisation wants to encourage delegates at the event to communicate and work with each other to set up information cells in their part of the country, which will in turn link with those in other areas.
Waste Watch programme manager Damien Morris said: “We set up the network after realising there was no channel at the national level for all the committed waste educators out there to come together, share and learn.”
Relationship
Lauren Prince, who is responsible for Waste Watch's education and community section, added: “We recognise there are a lot of local authority recycling officers out there on their own and we are trying to set up a relationship between them.”
The organisation runs a number of programmes to target school children and make them waste aware. These include the Schools Waste Action Club, which is said to have cut the waste participating schools send to landfill by 50%.
The December conference will focus on how waste and purchasing can link to school sustainability. Speakers include Biffa Waste Services' director of external affairs Peter Jones.
For more information about the Waste Watch Education Network and the conference, contact Lauren Prince on 020 7549 0321 or lauren.prince@wastewatch.org.uk
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