The seminar will focus on resource efficiency and how businesses can seemingly improve their energy and water efficiency and reduce waste.

Speaker Profile

Ashley Robb is the Sector Development Manager within CO2Sense Yorkshire. He oversees a team of fifteen whose key objective is to stimulate the reduction, collection, reuse and reprocessing of a series of materials including glass, organics (and food waste), plastics, wood and paper. He offers technical and management guidance and ensures the team is on track to achieve the long term carbon goals that have been set for March 2012.

Ashley joined CO2Sense in June 2009 from an environmental consultancy, Resource Futures, where he led the research and consultancy team within the company. He has nearly 13 years of consultancy experience largely derived from sustainable wastes management. In his previous role he developed and managed a suite of services aimed at the private, public and community sectors.

In 2004, Ashley moved north of the border to take up a position with SLR Consulting in their Edinburgh office. Whilst at SLR, Ashley worked on the Wembley Redevelopment Programme, focusing on the sizing and specification of waste management facilities at the adjacent residential and commercial development. He also contributed to the non-municipal waste management strategy for the Greater London Authority with a particular emphasis on hazardous, construction and demolition wastes. Ashley has a broad understanding of household hazardous waste and has conducted a number of research projects on post-consumer batteries. He has carried out research on the economic and environmental (dis) benefits of the proposed directive on batteries.