Sustainable Innovation
Project Examples:
Resource management
- Researched and drafted a Technical Report on Waste Wood recycling as part of the UK Environment Agency's Quality Protocols project to declassify waste where possible to reduce regulation and facilitate markets for the Environment Agency
- Workshop on Dangerous Waste: Danish Association of Intermunicipal Waste Management Companies
Eco-design and product
- Integrated Product Policy: A range of projects related to Integrated Product Policy (IPP) and 'producer responsibility' in the electronics sector
- A review of IPP in various EC member states and the role of product policies, regulations and rating/labeling schemes in greenhouse gas abatement for the Japanese government
- Product environmental performance standards: convenor of ISO14006 and member of ISO and leader of BSI working groups on ISO TR 14062
- Study on sustainable public procurement as a potential driver for eco-innovation
- UK expert on ISO 14006-Environmental management systems-guide on Eco-design ( 2008~present)
- Eco-design/ product development: Developed tailored product scorecards, with a focus on embodied energy, greenhouse warming potential and toxicity, as a means to identify to customers the more sustainable and less carbon intensive products available
- Product take back: Implemented nationwide and European product takeback schemes for Toyota and Interface
- Supply chain: Developed a supplier sustainability programme in conjunction with The Natural Step
- Provided input to numerous Government advisory panels & task forces. Sustainable procurement advisor to the Strategic Supply Chain Group. Past Board Director of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance Association (USKIF)
Eco-innovation
- Study on sustainable public procurement as a potential driver for eco-innovation
- Development of concepts for a network and conference radical sustainable innovation in Copenhagen (through Co-creative)
- Study related to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) - as part of the sustainable management systems
- Completed studies on the implementation of eco-design in Europe
- Developed eco-design guidelines for the electronics sector
- For the UK Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) , reviewed sustainable packaging design methods and tools for reducing waste through re-design. Included reviewing life cycle assessment (LCA) and other methodologies