Speakers
Green Retail 2008 Speaker
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Peter T JonesJob Title: Director of external affairs and strategy development
Company Name: Biffa
Peter T Jones is a Director of Biffa Waste
Services Limited with specific responsibilities in external affairs
and strategy development. He has 18 years experience in the waste
industry - all with Biffa - before which he has worked in the
welding, pallet hire, parcels and industrial gases sectors. He
is a member of the Chartered Institutes of Marketing, Transport,
and Wastes Management, and operates in roles demanding specific
skills in the development and management of change processes in
sectors undergoing substantial upheaval due to competitive, regulatory,
or other pressures. He qualified from Nottingham University as
an industrial economist in 1969, and in July 2007 received an
honorary degree from the University of Southampton.
As chair of the now disbanded RSA Environment Committee, Peter now takes a lead in championing the RSA Traded Carbon Credits Scheme.
In the environmental arena Peter is chair of the DEFRA/DTI Resource Efficiency KTN which he carried on from the chairmanship of the Mini-Waste Faraday. He also sits on the DEFRA New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, their Data Advisory Panel, and the Sustainable Consumption and Production Taskforce (for which he chairs a subcommittee looking at the issues around distributed energy systems in the UK). He has also given evidence to a range of Parliamentary Select Committees over the years on the subjects of waste, sustainability, resource efficiency, and other issues relating to future environmental challenges faced by society.
In the charitable sector, Peter is a Trustee of Waste Watch and Global Action Plan, as well as being on the Advisory Committee of the Resource Recovery Forum, and a member of the WWF-UK Council of Ambassadors. When the rules permitted, he was instrumental in the creation of the Biffaward Mass Balance Programme which resulted in over £10m of funding to over 60 sectoral, material, and regionally focused studies designed to inform policy development in the environmental debate. He is a keen advocate of the case for considering the waste sector as an important catalyst to unlocking the issues around the carbon economy in a UK context.
As chair of the now disbanded RSA Environment Committee, Peter now takes a lead in championing the RSA Traded Carbon Credits Scheme.
In the environmental arena Peter is chair of the DEFRA/DTI Resource Efficiency KTN which he carried on from the chairmanship of the Mini-Waste Faraday. He also sits on the DEFRA New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, their Data Advisory Panel, and the Sustainable Consumption and Production Taskforce (for which he chairs a subcommittee looking at the issues around distributed energy systems in the UK). He has also given evidence to a range of Parliamentary Select Committees over the years on the subjects of waste, sustainability, resource efficiency, and other issues relating to future environmental challenges faced by society.
In the charitable sector, Peter is a Trustee of Waste Watch and Global Action Plan, as well as being on the Advisory Committee of the Resource Recovery Forum, and a member of the WWF-UK Council of Ambassadors. When the rules permitted, he was instrumental in the creation of the Biffaward Mass Balance Programme which resulted in over £10m of funding to over 60 sectoral, material, and regionally focused studies designed to inform policy development in the environmental debate. He is a keen advocate of the case for considering the waste sector as an important catalyst to unlocking the issues around the carbon economy in a UK context.
Speaking at the
following session: Forward trends in waste to Resources from an Operator viewpoint
Retail Lost Turnover - Where it might
go from the Waste Bin
The impact of the pre-treatment regulations from Oct 2007
