seminars
APSE Northern Professional
Practice Forum
The Future of Waste and Recycling Services
Wednesday 29 April 2015 at Monkbar Hotel, York
Wednesday 29 April 2015
09:30 - Coffee, breakfast pastries and registration
10:30 Challenges, opportunities, efficiencies
State of the Market in Refuse and Recycling
• What does the APSE State of the Market Survey
Results for 2015 tell us about the future of the service
• Budgets, future funding and income generation
• How are councils responding to service challenges
like TEEP
• What does the data tell us for our service planning?
Speaker: Mo Baines, APSE Head of Communication
and Coordination
The Performance Discussion: Waste and refuse
optimal efficiencies
An interactive session for waste and recycling
managers who are looking to explore their service
performance with an exploration from APSE's own
management and performance expert Andy Mudd
who will advise on how we optimise efficiency in waste
and recycling services and how we start to assess
where a service is at and where it needs to get to.
Speaker: Andy Mudd, Head of APSE Solutions
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 Professional Practice Forum: Practical and
Operational Perspectives on the Service from
APSE Members in the North
Income generation from Bulky Waste
• Introducing a charge
• Channel shifting request to online
• What we have achieved in Bradford on our
graduating cost approach
• What are retailers doing?
Speaker: Stuart Russo, Bradford City Council
The York Experience
The pressures on waste collection in a City like York
• Student populations: Maintaining a good service with
a transient population
• Keeping a good service in an historic city centre and
coping with tourism needs.
Speaker: Geoff Derham, Head of Waste & Fleet
Services, York City Council
Fire risk: Waste transfer sites and refuse derived
fuel storage facilities
• What fire risks are connected with your waste and
recycling services?
• The experience of Greater Manchester Fire and
Rescue in tackling major incidents at RDF storage
facilities
• Partnership working between local authorities, fire
and rescue services to mitigate risk
• What regulatory powers are available?
Speaker: Peter Buckley, Fire Engineering Manager,
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue.
1:00PM - 2:00 Lunch
A hot lunch will be served at the rise of the
seminar enabling all delegates to take part in a
valuable networking opportunity.
About the Venue
The Best Western Monkbar Hotel is in the heart of the
vibrant City of York and the full address is:
Best Western Monkbar Hotel
St Maurices Road
York
YO31 7JA
The venue is within walking distance of York Train
Station
There is no onsite car parking at the hotel but the
nearest car park is York City Council’s Foss Bank
Shoppers Car Park which is just two minutes away from
the venue, situated under the Sainsbury’s store (Post
code YO31 7PL). Foss Bank has a vehicle height
restriction of 6'6".
For any delegates staying in the hotel the night before
this event the hotel has a parking permit system that
can be used in any Council Car Park. The permits allow
you to park from 8am - 10am (the next morning/26
hours) for £5.00. One permit will be required per night
of your stay. There is a drop off area outside the hotel
where you can pick up your permit and a member of
the hotel staff will be on hand to direct you to the
nearest car park. Please note hotel accommodation is
NOT included as part of the APSE event.
About the seminar
This forum is funded free of charge for APSE northern region members and is suitable for
council leaders, executive / cabinet members, elected members and senior officers,
including chief executives, assistant chief executives, seniors officers and heads of
service. It will be of interest of particular interest to those with area responsibilities for
waste and recycling services, city centre management and street scene management
and policy and performance leads.
Seminar free to attend
This professional practice forum is FREE to attend to APSE northern region members.
Non-APSE member council delegates may attend at a cost of £125.00 and commercial
delegates at a cost of £225.00. The forum includes a full delegate place and delegate
pack, arrival coffee and registration, mid-morning break and a hot lunch. The forum will
allow delegates to network over lunch before the event closes at 2.00PM.
Reserve your place now by completing the booking form and faxing it or emailing to
Keisha Swaby at APSE on 0161 772 1811 [email protected]
The venue
Monkbar Hotel
St Maurices Road
York
YO31 7JA
The venue is easily accessible by rail and road. Nearby car parking is available.
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