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Sarah Wild – Recycling – Will it ‘Save the World’? A Brief History of Waste Disposal in the UK, and Querying if Putting ‘Waste’ in Different Coloured Dustbins is a Positive Action?
16th May 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Sarah has worked as a Recycling officer for five districts in Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire County Council. She has also been a waste advisor at the Sustainability Forum for the South East; contributed to the legal and practical input on the Waste Minimisation Act for the Women’s Environmental Network; chaired local authority opposition to incineration and served in various capacities for the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee. She currently works to support organisations wanting facts on waste to oppose overdevelopment of housing where there is insufficient infrastructure to deal with waste and sewage. Sarah is a member of the Oxford U3A.
In this talk, Sarah will give a concise history of how household waste was dealt with until it became the responsibility of the council and why the 25 per cent recycling rate was randomly chosen. Using government statistics on waste, she will put forward a view as to how every person can reduce their adverse environmental impact together with information about why all governments fail to address these practical measures