A selection of links and details on work produced.
Work produced whilst at RECOUP (2019 – Present)
Overview of work undertaken: https://www.recoup.org/p/431/recoup-reports-policy-infrastructure
UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey 2022, 2021 and Data Summary, 2020 and Case Studies 2020.
Press coverage of the 2022 report, as well as provided quotes, included: Let’s Recycle, Packaging Insights, Packaging Europe, Plastikmedia (and in LinkedIn summary), Future Waste, Protos, CP Mirror, Material Recycling World (MRW) and the RECOUP website.
Household Waste Recycling Centres in England 2023, 2020.
Press coverage of the 2023 report, as well as provided quotes, included: Let’s Recycle, other to be added.
UK Household Plastic Packaging Sorting and Reprocessing Infrastructure Report 2022, and 2020.
Quality Standard Recycled Plastics – UK Bale Specification (September 2022) with the Environmental Services Association (ESA)
Covid-19 Impact Report (July 2020)
Responses to government consultations, including: HMRC’s UK Plastic Packaging Tax; Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR); Consistency In Household and Business Recycling in England; Single-Use Plastic Packaging in England (Defra), Scotland (Scottish Government), Wales (Welsh Government), and Northern Ireland (DAERA); Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; Deposit Return Scheme in Scotland; Competition and Markets Authority guidance on Environmental Claims on Goods & Services, Recycled Plastic in Food Contact Packaging.
Articles published:
MRW Material Focus Plastics Article (April 2023)
The Packaging News Podcast | Episode Two – the Plastic Packaging Tax (April 2023)
MRW Material Focus Plastics Article (January 2023)
Investigation after referee claims he was abused and attacked after Lincolnshire junior football match – Lincolnshire Live (10 February 2022)
‘Forgotten’ Lincolnshire airfield looking to honour Polish World War Two airmen – Lincolnshire Live (11 May 2019)
‘They’re such a lovely family’ – residents shocked as popular local shop is targeted in knifepoint robbery – Lincolnshire Live (10 May 2019)
Fury over price hike at Lincolnshire hospital shop – Lincolnshire Live (9 May 2019)
Examples of articles produced independently and for studies at the University of Lincoln (2018-2019) and Anglia Ruskin University (2014-2017):
Whatever Happened to Tony Slattery Anyway?
Surviving War in Europe: One Tale of Escape from the Bosnia War
The dogs of war: strays on the streets of Sarajevo
Life during and after the Soviet Union: Estonia’s remarkable post-communist rebirth
Lincoln’s Bomber Command Centre remembers those who fought in World War II (for Bailgate Independent in summer 2019)
The people of Lincoln are being invited to help secure the future of the Drill Hall (for Bailgate Independent in summer 2019)
Call for volunteers to ‘Spring Clean’ Lincolnshire
Sleaford Market: ‘Use it or lose it’ warning to locals
Brexit: MP’s reject May’s ‘deadline day proposal’
‘Evolve’ event wows crowds as real life ‘rocket man’ flies over Brayford in Lincoln
The Ultimate Sleepover: Nature Night Camping with the Animals at Whipsnade Zoo
Kruja Castle: The Heart of Albania’s National Identity
The City That Sees: Sights and Stories in Berat, Albania’s Postcard Picture
From Views to Handmade Shoes: Kruja, The Old Town Adorning an Albanian Mountainside
Above Albania’s City of a Thousand Windows: Berat Castle
Tirana’s Dajti Mountain Cable Car: From Urban Chaos to Mountain Serenity in Albania
BunkArt: A Historical Tour of Albania’s Communist Past Under the Streets of Tirana
Unfiltered Adventures 