Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging

Dr Colin Church

Chief Executive, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

Dr Colin Church FIMMM CEnv MCIWM is Chief Executive of IOM3 since 2018. He is also Chair of the Circular Economy Task Force, a business led group convened by Green Alliance that aims to lead policy discussions with ambitious business thinking. He is a Fellow of IOM3, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Resource and Waste Manager.

Previously, Colin was the CEO of CIWM, the UK professional body for resources and waste management. Before that, he spent 21 years in the UK Civil Service working in a range of areas including climate change, the theory and practice of regulation, and environmental protection including resource and waste management. He also held several environment-related non-executive roles.

Pat Jennings

Policy, Knowledge & External Affairs Director, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)

Recently voted no. 60 in the Resource Top 100 list for 2020, and described as "the driving force behind CIWM's policy output", Pat is Head of Policy, Knowledge and External Affairs for the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

She is a member of the senior management team with responsibility for engagement and liaison with UK governments and sector stakeholders on policy and legislation, most recently in the context of the sector’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with private and public sector stakeholders, she has provided input to help support and shape UK governments’ contingency planning for resource and waste management during the pandemic and worked with other teams in CIWM to roll out a range of COVD-19 support and information sharing initiatives, both for CIWM members and the wider sector. These have included the convening of an expert COVID-19 Advisory Group and the development, in partnership with other sector-leading bodies, of a resource-sharing platform which had government support and was welcomed by HRH Prince Philip, a long standing Fellow of CIWM.

With over 25 years’ experience in the resources and waste field, Pat also oversees CIWM’s technical and policy capability, research and thought leadership activities, and industry communications and media relations.

In 2019, she led a collaborative cross-UK consultation exercise with CIWM members and the wider sector on the major government consultations on packaging Extended Producer Responsibility, Deposit Return Schemes, Consistent Collections and the Plastics Packaging Tax.

She is active in a number of sector fora on topics ranging from waste crime to circular economic thinking, and strives to ensure that CIWM is seen as a respected and independent voice in the development of policy frameworks that support high standards of environmental protection and the environmental, economic and net zero benefits of improved resource efficiency and productivity.

 

Dr Adam Read

External Affairs Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Dr Adam Read has been External Affairs Director at SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK for just over 3 years after a successful career in academia, local government and consultancy. He has been jointly leading SUEZ’s work with the UK Government on the development of the new English Resources & Waste Strategy and associated consultations, is lead author on all of the SUEZ evidence submissions, and has co-hosted 50 plus workshops in the last 24 months working with the value chain to assess the changes needed to meet higher recycling targets and deliver sector decarbonisation. Adam commissioned the invisible pollutants report, and participated in the expert panel workshop, to draw attention on another emission that society must deal with collaboratively.  Adam sits on numerous industry technical working groups is a Fellow of the CIWM, the RSA, IOM3 and the Royal Geographical Society and is the CIWM ‘s incoming President, taking up the reigns in June 2020 when his presidential theme will be skills for a green recovery.

: www.suez.co.uk/en-gb
: adam-read-3337517
: @AdamRead74

Dr Robert Fell

Director & Chief Executive, Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association

Robert  joined the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association as Director and CEO in June 2019.   He has a wealth of industry experience having spent three years as chief executive of British Metals Recycling Association; 14 years as a senior R&D manager at Ardagh Group; and nearly twenty years at Crown Corporate Technology working across a range of scientific research and operational roles.  He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining.

: robert-fell

Professor Mike Clinch

Senior Consultant & Materials Development Group Leader, Innoval Technology Ltd | IOM3 Technology Communities Board

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: https://www.innovaltec.com/
: mike-clinch-3bb0517
: @ClinchMichael

Dr Nick Kirk

Technical Director, British Glass

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: www.britglass.co.uk
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickkirk/

Dr Sarah Connolly

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Dr Graham Ormondroyd

Bangor University | IOM3 Wood Technology Group

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Margaret Bates

Executive Director, OPRL Ltd | IOM3 Packaging Society

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: www.oprl.org.uk
: margaret-bates-b98b374
: @Wastereader

Jude Allan

Chair, IOM3 Packaging Society

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: judith-allan-b2410992

Mike Swain BSc(Hons) FIMMM

Managing Director, Pack IDS Ltd | IOM3 Packaging Society

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: mike-swain

Paul Vanston

Chief Executive, The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment (INCPEN)

Paul Vanston became Chief Executive of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) in May 2017 after 25 years in central and local government.  He’s a Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management; the Courtauld 2025 Steering Group tackling food waste; the UK Plastics Pact; the Green Alliance; and the Government’s Resources & Waste Stakeholder Advisory Group.

: www.incpen.org
: @paulvanston

Dr Sally Beken

UK Circular Plastics Network Manager, KTN

Sally holds a degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D in Polymer Science. Her early research work resulted in a number of scientific papers on polymer modification and pyrolysis, and a book on rubber blends. She has led on EU funded elastomer projects and worked for a Malaysian RTO developing tyre and antivibration compounds. Business-wise she holds a number of patents in medical device developments and hundreds of millions of metered dose inhaler units are still being used annually with the elastomer formulation she developed as a response to using less polluting greenhouse gasses as aerosols. She has been in tech transfer for over 15 years and has built numerous collaborations and supported companies accessing funding for innovative projects with expert knowledge of polymers.  She has been an Innovation Lead at Innovate UK and monitored a portfolio of over 60 projects and co-wrote scope for plastics related competitions. Since the Blue Planet II episode featuring plastics aired she has been determined to see less plastic waste entering the environment whilst realising the positive benefits of polymers to mitigating climate change and supporting sustainability. She founded and currently heads up the UK Circular Plastics Network and leads on the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging activity at KTN.

: www.ukcpn.co.uk
: sallybeken
: @Dr_Sally_Beken

Elaine Barrett

European Environmental Manager, Crown

No bio provided

: www.crown.com

Nicola Jones

Manager, Steel Packaging Recycling, Tata Steel

Nicola Jones is Tata Steel in Europe’s Manager of Packaging Recycling.  Having joined the company when it was British Steel in 1999, Nicola has spent the majority of her career working within the Packaging Recycling Department of the UK’s only remaining tinplating works in Trostre, South Wales. Nicola works with the packaging industry to raise the profile of sustainable steel packaging and its recycling credentials.

: www.tatasteeleurope.com
: nicola-jones-2ab8b417
: @N1cola_Jones

Niall Walker

Packaging Sustainability Manager – Global Procurement, Diageo

Responsible for leading the transformation of Packaging in service of Diageo’s 2030 ambition.  Circular Economy MBA.  20 years in Diageo and it’s supply chain.  Personally, I want to look back at the end of my career and be proud of how I have helped the whisky industry, and wider society change and thrive. 

: www.Diageo.com
: niall-walker-2b207638

Professor Edward Kosior

Managing Director, Nextek Limited

Edward Kosior  ( FSPE, FIOMMM, FRSA) has been active as an innovator in polymer technology for the past 35 years both within universities and recycling enterprises. He is an Honorary Professor at Brunel University UK and Fellow of The Society of Plastics Engineers; The Institute of Materials, Metal and Mining; Royal society of the Arts. He recently received the Prince Philip Medal for “Polymers in the service of man”

His specialisations are advanced recycling plastics technologies including food grade from post consumer plastics such as PET, HDPE and PP, mixed plastics recycling, minimizing carbon footprint of packaging; bioplastics packaging; reducing plastics in the oceans, and waste plastics to fuel technology.

: www.nextek.org
: edward-kosior-31b00910
: @EdKosior

Danielle Purkiss

Research Fellow, UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

Danielle is an Architect and Research Fellow at the UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub (PWIH). Drawing from a diverse range of technical design and communication skills, her research focus is on material circular economies and sustainable design led systems interventions. Danielle is co-creator of the Big Compost Experiment citizen science study into compostable plastics, and has co-authored reports on the current UK system for biodegradable plastics with PWIH. She teaches and lectures in the UK and internationally.

: www.daniellepurkiss.com
: daniellepurkiss
: @daniellepurkiss