The 'Invisible Ocean Pollutants' from our Roads

However, some of the statistics are not as easy to overlook:
- Approximately 25% of car tyres and 33% of truck tyres are natural rubber; the remainder is a combination of synthetic plastic, metals and textiles.
- In the UK, approximately 63,000 tonnes of tyre dust is deposited on roads each year.
- Through our separated drain systems, a significant proportion of tyre dust goes straight into our river systems and then into the oceans.
- Tyres contribute to approximately 28% of all ocean plastic.
Join us to explore the causes, impacts and solutions to stem the tide of this invisible pollutant on our roads.
Speakers
External Affairs Director | Senior Vice President,SUEZ recycling and recovery UK | CIWM
Dr Adam Read
External Affairs Director | Senior Vice President, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK | CIWM

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.
Website: www.suez.co.uk/en-gb
LinkedIn: adam-read-3337517
Twitter: @AdamRead74
Post-doctoral Research Fellow,University of Plymouth

Winnie is a plastic pollution expert with experience researching the sources and fate of (micro)plastics within the marine ecosystem and providing evidence to support appropriate solutions to plastic waste. She works within the University of Plymouth’s International Marine Litter Research Unit, where she leads scientific investigation for eXXpedition, an all-female sailing voyage to study plastic and toxic pollution. Additionally, Winnie is technical lead for delivering consultancy, business and industrial research and innovation projects relating to plastics. Her scientific endeavours have led her to study plastic pollution in a variety of environments from the coastline to some of the most remote parts of our planet including the deep sea and oceanic gyres. Winnie has authored a number of publications and technical reports, and has spoken UK and European Parliament.
Website: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/winnie-courtene-jones
LinkedIn: winniecourtenejones
Twitter: @WinnieCJ
Founder and Managing Director,SOcial, ENvironmental & EConomic Solutions (SOENECS) Ltd
Dr David Greenfield
Founder and Managing Director, SOcial, ENvironmental & EConomic Solutions (SOENECS) Ltd

David is managing director and founder of SOENECS, a research and innovation practice in 2014 following 15 years in leadership roles in local and regional government. SOENECS provide strategic research, advice, training, solutions, chairing and facilitation on the topics of circular economy, environmental auditing, waste & resource management. His innovative projects include co-founding www.potholespotter.co.uk and www.techtakeback.co.uk. David is leading the creation of the Brighton & Hove City Council Circular Economy routemap.
David is responsible for External Affairs in Europe for the “Circular Economy Club (CEC)”, he is also a Mentor and the organiser of CEC London, co-organiser of Circular Brighton & Hove, he is non-executive Chair of the CIWM Enterprises Board, Trustee and Director of Freegle, Chair of the ICE Resource Management Panel, Government Adviser to DEFRA and MHCLG and advisor and past chair to the National Waste Network Chairs (WNC).
Website: www.soenecs.co.uk
LinkedIn: david.greenfield
Twitter: @DrResources
Secretary General,European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers' Association

Mrs Cinaralp joined the Rubber Industry in 1991 where she exercised several functions towards the European Institutions, mainly leading environmental projects. Between 1997-2006, she served as Secretary General of the European Rubber Industry Association –BLIC. Since 2006, Mrs. Cinaralp is leading the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association-ETRMA. Fazilet Cinaralp has an extensive experience in environmental and sustainability issues.
Website: www.etrma.org
Technical Development Director,SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Stuart Hayward-Higham is currently responsible for non-bidding emerging development activities in SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, delivering tools, techniques and information to meet customers’ business imperatives. This includes delivering new solutions or making successful niche activities mainstream through to market intelligence, market modelling and forecasting. In addition to his SUEZ duties Stuart is a director for Recoup (plastics recycling charity), a director of Terracycle UK, a member of the Defra Advisory Committee on Packaging and a member of the advisory board to the national materials datahub project. Further to this he has provided expert advice to the EU on relevant elements of the circular economy and acted as a H2020 expert assessor. He is chair of the Environmental Services Association (ESA) Bioresources committee and member of the ESA renewable energy committee, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) Organic recycling steering group and gasification and Pyrolysis committee. Stuart also regularly guest lectures at a number of UK universities.
Main activity themes include harnessing waste as a resource, energy and bio-fuels manufacture, sorting, extraction and value enhancement for waste mix resources and the increasing introduction of circular economy based products and solutions.
Website: www.suez.co.uk/en-gb
Twitter: @stuhhigh_suezUK
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.
Website: www.ukcpn.co.uk
LinkedIn: sallybeken
Twitter: @Dr_Sally_Beken