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Paul Frith

Summary of Expertise

• Waste Strategy Development:

  • developed municipal waste management strategies, including supporting appendices and action plans, from initial draft, through consultation, to adoption using the 2005 guidance for major local authorities and partnerships in England.

• Waste Management Technologies:

  • project manager of the New Technologies Support Programme of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (three year project) - role included management of a £1.2m government contract, developing literature on waste treatment technologies, provision of briefings to a range of audiences;
  • waste technologies assessments for local authorities.
  • member of the steering committee of the Thermal Treatment Group of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).

• Municipal Data Capture:

  • development work on the waste data capture tool, through the CIWM Environmental Body National WasteDataFlow project

• Waste Procurement:

  • technology related advice to private finance initiative procurement projects;
  • various partnership based projects addressing joint working and efficiencies in service delivery for local authorities.

• Training:

  • providing guidance and training to local authorities on new technologies for biodegradable municipal waste diversion;
  • designed and delivered dedicated three day training courses to local authorities.
  • Also regularly provides training to military personnel on the Project Orientated Environmental Management System.

• Waste Management Research:

  • formal research qualification;
  • experienced in assessment, development, and project management of wide range of research activities;
  • projects included the Defra environmental and health impacts study into waste management options;
  • contributed to specialist reports to the Strategy Unit of the Cabinet Office and other Government funded bodies;
  • contributed to CIWM technical publications;
  • produced the Waste Sector Report for the Environment Agency.
  • currently on the Defra Waste and Resources Research Advisory Group, managing research projects on behalf of this work stream.

• Facilitation:

  • experienced facilitator chaired and facilitated numerous waste events with a variety of different stakeholders including decision-makers, regulators and community sectors.

• Bid Assessment and Evaluation:

  • evaluated tenders through various local authority (collection and disposal) procurement processes.
  • member of the expert panel on the Defra £140m waste minimisation and recycling fund.