Making the Business Case for Resource Recovery
22nd November 2017, Cloth Hall Court, Leeds
The Resource Recovery from Waste programme held its Annual Conference on 22nd November this year, at the Cloth Hall Court in Leeds, attracting around 70 participants from across academia, industry and government. The conference examined both the conceptual ideas and practical experiences on the formulation of business cases for resource recovery as a part of the circular economy.
The conference proceedings (pdf), summarises the key messages coming out of the conference, whilst the conference programme (pdf), contains a record of the day, including the talk abstracts. Presentations from the day are available to download via links in the schedule below. Some photos from the day can be found below this. The conversations during this conference form the basis for the RRfW open access research paper on ‘Making the business case for resource recovery‘.
Schedule
Time (hrs) | Item |
9.00 – 9.30 | Arrival and registration |
9.30 – 9.40 | Welcome by conference chair. Conference opening. |
9.40 – 10.10 | Keynote: David Fatscher, British Standards Institution. The first global circular business model standard BS8001 |
10.10 – 10.40 | Keynote: Prof Jan Jonker, Radboud University. Circular Economy: the quest for a changing focus in value creation in industry and government. |
10.40 – 11.00 | Refreshment break |
11.00 – 11.30 | Keynote: Prof Phil Purnell, University of Leeds. On a voyage of recovery: a preliminary review of the UK’s resource recovery from waste infrastructure. Also available with Commentary. |
11.30 – 12.00 | Keynote: Dr Ian Archer, Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC). Biorefining Potential for Scotland – and opportunities for everywhere else! |
12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch and networking |
13.00 – 14.00 | Specialist sessions and discussions
I. Creating value from wastes in the bioeconomy
II. Recovering materials from mine legacy landfills
III. New sustainability assessments and models
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14.00 – 14.30 | Group activities to identify academic, industry and government challenges when making the business case for resource recovery |
14.30 – 15.00 | Refreshment break |
15.00 – 15.30 | Panel discussion with chairs of specialist sessions to feed back results of discussions |
15.30 – 16.00 | Keynote: Libby Peake, Green Alliance. UK resources strategy after Brexit. |
16.00 – 16.30 | Keynote: Prof Ian Boyd, Chief Scientific Advisor Defra. A Government Perspective on Resource Recovery from Waste. |
16.30 – 16.45 | Open discussion and sum up of meeting |
16.45 | Close |
Conference Gallery





