May 2016 Quarterly Partnership Gathering
May 2016 Quarterly Partnership Gathering
- Are you working, volunteering or campaigning in the waste, recycling or reuse field and do you have ideas about how to deliver Bristol’s aspirations to become a zero waste city?
- Is your business or organisation striving to be more resource efficient and engaging with the circular economy?
- Are you from an organisation that is a member of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership, and would like to understand more about resources & waste, and the role you can play?
If so we need your participation and input!
The upcoming Quarterly Gathering from Bristol Green Capital Partnership offers the opportunity to identify the priorities, share ideas about how we put the commitments in to action, and to share expertise on how we can work collectively to improve the quality of life of current and future citizens.
We will be looking at the Council’s aims to significantly increase household recycling and reuse, reduce food waste and reduce waste sent to landfill as well as the role that businesses can play in reducing commercial waste and moving towards circular economy business practices.
With speakers, presentations and roundtable discussions, Bristol Green Capital Quarterly Partnership gatherings also offer a chance to hear updates from BGCP and provide a unique space to meet and share ideas with other members of the Partnership and local organisations.
Programme
09.00am Registration, refreshments & exhibition stands (in adjoining Graffiti Room)
09.30am Welcome from Jane Stephenson, Business Development Director of Resource Futures & a Director of Bristol Green Capital Partnership CIC
09.40am The Waste Strategy 2016: Aims & Aspirations – Bristol City Council
09.55am Bristol Waste Company: Delivery & future direction – Tracey Morgan, Managing Director of Bristol Waste Company
10.10am Innovation in action
- Bristol ReUse Network – Ben Moss
- Severnet – Kate Royston
- City to Sea CIC – Livvy Drake
- Geneco – Charlotte Stamper
10.30am Themed Workshops – 30 second ‘pitches’ from each table host
10.35am Themed Workshops: Part 1
There will be 12+ themed workshops which will be repeated twice so everyone will have the opportunity to attend 2 workshops. The first session will be aimed at organisations/individuals with particular expertise/interest in the workshop topic. The second session will review outputs from the first and make amends where appropriate.
The workshops will be facilitated by individuals with experience in the topics. The aims of the workshop are:
- To discuss what actions are needed to progress towards a ‘zero waste city’
- Who should lead in progressing them
- Who can act as contributors
- What will need further exploration before action can be taken
11.05am Refreshments available (in adjoining Graffiti Room)
11.10am Themed Workshops: Part 2
Everyone change tables to join a different themed workshops (table facilitators remain)
11.40am Prioritisation Exercise
Everyone invited to circulate all tables and notes, and use their 5 x stickers & post-it notes in a prioritisation exercise:
- 5 coloured stickers to prioritise actions
- post it notes – for participants to write their name/organisation to indicate where their organisation would like to help either as a leader or contributor
- 5 different coloured stickers to prioritise areas for further exploration
11.50am Chair’s observations and closing remarks
12.00pm Lunch & networking
Full list of Workshop topics:
Resilience – a 50 Year Trajectory – Sarah Toy (Bristol City Council Strategic Resilience Officer)
Sustainable resource management will be an important part of the city’s resilience strategy? What should our material world look like then? What should our aspirations be?
Waste prevention – Livvy Drake (City to Sea CIC)
In an ideal world we would be producing less waste in the first place. What measures can be taken at an individual and organisational level to prevent waste? What new ones could we look at? For example: Change in design, shift from products to services, food waste reduction, reusable nappies etc.
Increasing Re-Use – Ben Moss (Chair Bristol ReUse Network)
Re-use and the sharing economy could provide opportunities for saving carbon and material resources, and create employment, as well as saving money. How can we increase re-use? What initiatives can we put in place at home, in the community, at work, or in industry to prioritise re-use? How can Bristol demonstrate leadership on a global level?
Litter & Flytipping – Bristol City Council representative
Bristol as a whole cleared 10,472 incidents of fly tipping in 2013/14 at a cost of £541,226, whilst Incidents of fly-tipped white goods increased by 152% between 2012 and 2014. Street litter remains a perennial concern for residents of the city. How can we improve these situations, and inspire the city to address these issues?
Food Waste – Jane Stevenson (Bristol Food Network)
Bristol has recently been awarded Silver status as a Sustainable Food City. As a key contributor to both greenhouse gas emissions and residual disposal costs, Bristol aims to reduce food waste domestically, and commercially. What initiatives can we put in to place, as a city, to achieve these changes and help us go for Gold?
Supporting Community Action – Amy Hale (Resource Futures, founder member of FoodCycle Bristol)
Bristol has a strong tradition of community action on sustainability and resource management in particular – recycling collections were first established by FoE in the 1980s and the reuse agenda has been led by the community/social enterprise sector eg: repair cafes, tool libraries, food redistribution, action against litter and flytipping etc. What support does grassroots led activity need to help it flourish? How can this be provided and by whom?
Behaviour Change – communication & education Bethan Thomas (Head of Engagement and Communications, Resource Futures)
If Bristol is to become a ‘zero waste city’ we need to find new ways of inspiring, encouraging and enabling its citizens in homes, workplaces and institutions to change the way they manage resources. What fresh ideas can be brought to this challenge?
Residual Treatment – Mike Brown (Eunomia)
As we strive for a zero waste city, where waste is re-used or recycled, we are left with an amount of residual waste. By 2025 the Council aims for this to reduce this to around 30% of total waste produced. What processes are we using for these? How we can we ensure the most efficient systems are used? How will we ensure that the demands of residual waste do not out-weigh that of the circular economy?
Circular Economy – the Business Model – Kaye Royston (Severnnet)
What processes are being put in place within businesses to ensure the achievement of a circular economy, where all waste is seen as ‘food’ for another part of the system, and minimal amounts of waste is ‘leaked’ to residual treatment? How can businesses link with other businesses to achieve more sound business models with robust ecological and economic resilience? What best practices can we adopt?
Waste services & commercial waste in Business (tbc)
The commercial and business sector accounts for a significant amount of resources that end as residual waste. How can we address this in the city, so as minimise waste, maximise commercial recycling and re-use and reduce vehicle movements from trade waste collections? Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have tried setting up recycling collections but have found it difficult to get traders to buy in. How can services be provided to the commercial sector that meets both the needs of businesses and the city’s environment?
High Quality Recycling – Rose Rooney (University of Bristol)
The new Mayor has stated the ambition of achieving 55% recycling of household waste by 2020 and to provide recycling facilities for all households. Recycling collections are just one part of the jigsaw – finding markets for collected materials is also important. Reprocessors’ consistently demand clean, high quality materials in order that the recycling process is efficient. What actions can be taken to encourage householders to use their collections correctly?
Household Waste & Recycling Centres (HWRCs) – Eric Bridgwater (Resource Futures)
Bristol has two HWRCs in Avonmouth and St Phillips. The new Mayor’s manifesto includes a new site on Hartcliffe Way. What measures can be taken to encourage these sites to be more efficient, to accommodate re-use options and deter abuse from traders?
