This session will look at some emerging trends in the world of e-waste.
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Synopsis
This session will look at some emerging trends in the world of e-waste, including the rise of FastTech, disposable vapes and the increasing challenges of battery related waste fires. It will also look at how AI and machine learning are being applied to help meet these challenges.
There are many unused electronics that people store in their homes without realising these items contain valuable materials that could gain a new life. E-waste includes anything with a plug, cable, or battery, but the most often ‘forgotten’ items are small electronics: old mobile phones, cables, USB keys, card readers, game consoles, and other devices that are often kept out of sight in drawers.
To help tackle this global problem, every year on October 14th, International E-Waste Day is celebrated.
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About the speakers
Scott Butler
Scott Butler - Executive Director at Material Focus Scott is a business, sustainability and tech expert with over 20 years experience working for Material Focus, European Recycling Platform (ERP), Samsung, Science Museum Group, Royal Mail and the Environment Agency.
He has led and set up successful and innovative environmental, sustainability, circular economy, extended producer responsibility and behaviour change programmes. His key achievements include setting up Material Focus, a not-for-profit leading the UK wide Recycle Your Electricals behaviour change campaign.Material Focus also produces insightful research on all things e-waste, and funded and supported new collection and drop-off options that are now making it easier for millions of more people in the UK to fix, donate and recycle their old and unwanted electricals.
Prior to Material Focus he set up and ran the UK operation for the European Recycling Platform (ERP), delivering environmental compliance for electricals, batteries and packaging to hundreds of companies, including many of the world’s tech giants. He also led on sustainability issues for Samsung Electronics in the UK and Ireland while the then new European WEEE and RoHS regulations were being introduced.
Earlier in his career he led on the groundbreaking sustainability policies for the Science Museum Group, including the first ever national museum and galleries environmental forum, bringing together the South Kensington Museums, National Galleries, Royal Parks, Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Geographical Society. He has a first class academic background with an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and an MBA from Warwick Business School.
Jonathan Bowl
Jonathan Bowl is a highly experienced leader and has worked across multiple functional and executive roles including general management, sales leadership, business development, partnerships, demand generation, marketing and go-to market strategies across domestic and international markets, with a strong understanding of culture to build high-performing teams that deliver results.
With extensive experience in the technology industry having worked in some of the largest technology companies on the planet, Jonathan understands how technology including AI and machine learning, can help organisations transform and modernise in order to be become truly data-driven, to stay relevant and compete in today’s fast paced economy.
An extremely creative individual who thrives on building, nurturing and developing high performing teams from start-up to full scale operations, Jonathan has a proven ability to create strategies successfully delivered through effective execution, whilst motivating and inspiring teams and leading by example.
Jonathan’s passion for new and emerging technology, trends and services that bring about differentiated solutions that positively impact the world, aligns well with Lion Vision’s mission to help society address their toughest challenges.
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