Members of the waste and recycling industry, as well as members of the public, are invited to join industry representatives for a live chat today (8 August) from 12- 1pm, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of waste and recycling in business.
The Guardian's Sutainable Business Hub will host a live talk with a panel of 'experts' taking questions on waste and recycling initiatives, with themes including:
- benefits and opportunities for business in managing waste and recycling;
- identifying where resources can be saved or recycled;
- examples of innovation and best practice;
- engaging employees and consumers in waste and recycling programmes; and
- future challenges and scaling up.
The panel includes speaker Donna Rawlinson, Advanced Anaerobic Digestion Project Manager at Northumbrian Water; Jim Dinnage, Chairman of Seacourt Ltd.; Belinda Miller, Insight Director at Corporate Culture; and Dinand Stufkens, Founder and Designer at KAZMOK.
Those wishing to take part can submit questions online, or tweet them to @GuardianSustBiz using #askGS.
The live chat will take place on the Sustainable Business Hub website.
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