15th November 2021
Blog written by Sarah Ottaway, Sustainability and Social Value Lead at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. As you read this, the dust will be settling on the final commitments and agreements made from the COP26 negotiations. Even though I’m writing this before the negotiations have concluded, I’m confident that tackling consumption, food waste or any major commitments related to reducing
8th November 2021
Blog by Dr Adam Read, Director of External Affairs at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. This blog was originally posted by EfW Net. I thought that after spending last week in Glasgow for COP26, now would be the perfect time to reflect on what happened, and to assess the implications for the waste and resources sector. The less said about the
22nd October 2021
Blog by Dr Adam Read, Director of External Affairs at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. With the world now waking up to the perfect storm of climate, biodiversity and social crises, it is clear that businesses and other organisations must play their part fully in tackling these issues head on, because without the private sector delivering its best foot forward, we
22nd October 2021
Blog by Dr Adam Read, Director of External Affairs at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. This blog was originally posted by EfW Net. Welcome back! I trust you are all rested after your summer break, albeit it was another odd summer given changing travel conditions and any number of COVID variant outbreaks in our favoured locations. It seems things are settling
4th August 2021
For young people, high summer should be a rite of passage marked by exams, graduation and perhaps travel, or a first real experience of the world of work. But just as the pandemic has taken away many freedoms and disrupted their education, the aftershocks are impacting the life chances of young people, not least new interns and graduates.
22nd July 2021
Blog by Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. Carbon, net zero and climate change are a key focus of governments, businesses and citizens across the world, especially when brought into stark focus through the exceptional heat and rainfall events of recent weeks. Whilst keeping an eye on resource consumption, natural capital and biodiversity net gain,
20th July 2021
Social value’s purpose is to understand the impact an activity or service is having on its stakeholders and using this to inform decision making about the current or future activities or services. But how do we know if what we’re seeing is good, bad or something else entirely? In our recent webinars on the subject, we’ve discussed what social value
30th April 2021
Blog by Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. The first of our deep-dive EPR and DRS discussion workshops with our customers focused on the importance of evidence in the systems being proposed in the recent waste and resources sector consultations from DEFRA. By approaching evidence in a systematic way we were able to translate the
27th April 2021
What is the waste sector’s role in delivering net zero carbon? How do we reduce our own and our customers’ carbon footprint? Recently, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK hosted a three part-webinar series to answer these very questions. In this blog, we discuss the outcomes and key learnings from the webinar as we continue to work with suppliers, customers and
21st April 2021
Public sector spend works hard, it delivers vital services for communities and individuals across the country, and never has that been more prevalent then over the past year as we battle COVID-19. As we start to look beyond the pandemic and move into a period of recovery, public sector spend will continue to be hard pressed and yet it’s purpose
