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Tackling the global waste emergency: how to extend services to the billions worldwide without access to waste collection?
This in-person event has been organised by CIWM London & Southern Counties Centre and CIWM Professional Development Network.
Date: Thursday 24th October 2024
Time: 09:15 - 14:00
Venue: The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London, SE11 5RR
CPD? Yes
Cost (includes VAT): CIWM Members - £31.20
Non Members - £55.20
CIWM Student Members - £12.00
Everyone has a right to basic services (SDG 1.4), one of which is regular and reliable solid waste collection. Yet despite much progress, according to the latest UNEP estimates (GWMO2024), some 2.7 billion people worldwide still lack access to collection services; in addition, of municipal solid waste that is collected, a significant proportion is open dumped or burned. This constitutes an on-going global waste emergency that has severe impacts, locally on public health and environmental pollution, and globally on climate heating and plastics pollution.
This meeting explores both the problem and potential solutions and the benefits in terms of reducing plastics pollution. The conventional top-down development approach of driving change through regulatory standards and infrastructure investment is making steady progress in much of the Global South but has had little success in extending services to underserved communities in lower income countries. So how to refocus development efforts, AND implement a parallel, bottom-up community-led approach? How can the services that people need be provided, while at the same time creating sustainable livelihoods? What should sustainable waste and resource management look like for the world’s poorest communities who are currently unserved or underserved, and how that can be achieved?
The speaker panel brings together leading waste practitioners, international development NGOs and researchers. The in-person event will comprise conventional presentations, followed by a panel discussion which will also be broadcast as a standalone webinar. Comments and questions will be taken from all participants. To register for the webinar only, please click here.
In-person Agenda:
| 09:15 |
Registration & Refreshments |
| 09:45 |
Chairs Introduction - Sarahjane Widdowson, Chair of CIWM London & Southern Counties Centre & Trustee of WasteAid |
| 09:55 |
The global waste emergency and how to tackle it - Professor David C Wilson, Imperial College London |
| 10:15 |
The neglected necessity: Uncollected waste the biggest source of plastic pollution - Dr Joshua Cottom, University of Leeds |
| 10:35 |
A people-centred approach to waste management in low-income contexts: what it means and what difference it makes - Dr Lucy Stevens, Practical Action |
| 10:55 |
Extending waste services to underserved communities - a young professional's reflections from the field - Maya Zaatar, Resources and Waste Advisory Group (RWA) |
| 11:15 |
Delivering an inclusive circular economy so that people and planet can thrive - Michelle Wilson, WasteAid |
| 11:35 |
Break / refreshments |
| 12:00 |
Panel discussion / standalone webinar with all the speakers - "what could/should sustainable waste and resource management look like for the world's poorest communities who are currently unserved or underserved, and how can that be achieved? |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
Speakers:
Sarahjane Widdowson (Moderator) - Chair of CIWM London & Southern Counties Centre, Trustee of WasteAid
Professor David C Wilson - Imperial College London. Author of first UNEP Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO) that identified the global waste emergency
Dr Joshua Cottom - University of Leeds. Lead author of September 2024 Nature paper which identifies uncollected waste as the largest source of plastics pollution.
Dr Lucy Stevens - Practical Action. Developing and implementing a people-centred approach to waste management in low-income countries.
Maya Zaatar - Resources and Waste Advisory Group (RWA). A young professional working around the world to extend waste services to underserved communities.
Michelle Wilson - WasteAid. Delivering an inclusive circular economy so people and planet can thrive.
Click here to read the full speaker biographies and find out more about the event.
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