I am getting a bit of a reputation for being obsessed with waste management. This is not because, as one senior regeneration practitioner (aka A Right Charmer) put it yesterday (in a Board meeting, I ask you!): "Sadek, you're full of s**t" - although, of course, that it undoubtedly the case.
No, it is more that I firmly believe that regeneration professionals, with their ability to work cross-sectorally, deal with multiple layers of alliances and coalitions when setting up partnerships and manage the vagaries of "cocktail funding" (sane people should not go there!) will, ultimately, provide the cadre force to tackle this fraught issue for once and for all. The new green jobs will be - in large part - in waste management. And I intend for BURA members to step up to the plate on this.
My mate who lives in Brighton has been telling me about another instance. The council there, in its infinite wisdom, has imposed massive, ugly street bins into which residents dispose their non-recyclable refuse. Every morning an enormous and noisy brute of a vehicle appears to lift the said bin and empty its contents into its container and the bin is then put back in place on the road. So far so good.
