Can We Cope With Zero Waste?Planning our way to a zero waste future

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:RichaRd Lochhead MSP

cabinet Secretary for Rural affairs and environment, Scottish Government

iain GuLLand

director, Zero Waste Scotland

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Can We Cope With Zero Waste?

The Scottish Government is working to significantly reduce the amount of waste Scotland sends to landfill. However, this will require a change in attitudes towards waste – from the amount we generate, to how and where we process it. How we deal with Scotland’s waste is not a question to be answered tomorrow: it is a crucial question for today.

The land-use planning system has a key role to play in helping Scotland become a ‘Zero Waste’ country. However, to be successful, the planning system needs the active involvement of people across Scotland in this often controversial topic: how and where should we process our waste?

This full-day conference hosted by Planning Aid for Scotland will explore the key challenges ahead for implementing the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan and consider how they will affect you - in your work as a built environment or waste professional, elected member, or in your community.

SeSSion 1: Planning for Zero Waste: the vision

Session one sets out the reasons behind the Scottish Government’s ambitious targets and zero waste agenda. The Zero Waste Plan identifies the land-use planning system as a key delivery mechanism for achieving Scotland’s waste objectives and how the Plan is rolled out on the ground will play an important part in determining the success of the zero waste agenda.

SeSSion 2 engaging with Waste: opportunities for better engagement

Session two explores the important issues of community engagement and decision-making in waste planning. The session focuses on the importance of inclusiveness in the decision-making process, effective engagement between all parties and how we can actively engage young people in decisions about the built environment.

SeSSion 3: national Problem, Local Solutions: What’s happening on the ground?

If waste is a national challenge, then the Zero Waste Plan demands that the solutions be found at a local level. Session three, the first of the afternoon’s panel sessions looks at the different approaches being taken across Scotland, considering how the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan is being implemented on the ground.

SeSSion 4: opportunities from Waste: beyond regulation to innovation

Session 4, the second of the day’s panel sessions, focuses on the potential benefits from waste. Can investment in waste infrastructure generate economic opportunities? Can communities also gain from waste infrastructure, for example through community benefit schemes? This final panel session will consider the range of potential benefits associated with waste planning.

About Planning Aid for Scotland

Planning Aid for Scotland (PAS) is an independent organisation, working across Scotland to help people shape their communities and improve the way people engage with the planning system. Planning is a vital public service and one in which everyone should be able to participate. PAS is here to provide people with the skills and information to engage positively with planning.

www.planningaidscotland.org.uk

SeSSion 1:

Planning for Zero Waste: The vision

10.00 Welcome – chair, Keith aitken

10.10 opening Keynote address Richard Lochhead MSP, cabinet Secretary for Rural affairs and environment

10.30 Q&a with Richard Lochhead MSP, cabinet Secretary for Rural affairs and environment

10.35 achieving a Zero Waste Scotland iain Gulland, director of Zero Waste Scotland

10.55 Q&a with iain Gulland, director of Zero Waste Scotland

11.10 break

SeSSion 2:

Engaging with Waste: Opportunities for better engagement

11.30 engaging minds in the great waste debatePetra biberbach, chief executive, PaS & Stephanie Simpson – PaS youth ambassador & community councillor

12.00 Getting a rational debatedonald anderson, director, PPS

12.15 Planning for wasteJohn Smith, director, caSa Planning and environment

12.30 Lunch

SeSSion 3:

National Problem, Local Solutions: What’s happening on the ground?

13:30 Panel discussion and Q&a

• ProfJamesCurran,ChiefExecutive,SEPA• DrMaggieBochel,HeadofPlanning

andSustainableDevelopment,AberdeenCityCouncil

• GordonWatson,DirectorofPlanningandRuralDevelopment,LochLomondandtheTrossachsNationalPark

• MalcolmMcArdle,AlloaCommunityEnterprisesACE

• IanAngus,StrategicDevelopmentPlanManager,SESplan

14.30 break

SeSSion 4:

Opportunities from Waste: Beyond regulation to innovation

15.00 Panel discussion and Q&a

• AlanPollock,Director,RPSGroup• LoriMcElroy,SUST.Programme

Director,A+DS• ProfGregLloyd,HeadofSchool

oftheBuiltEnvironment,UniversityofUlster

• ScottishRenewables–TBC

16.00 closing address by chair

16.15 close of conference

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Agenda 1 MaRch 2012 aPex inteRnationaL hoteL, edinbuRGh

09.30 ReGiStRation and RefReShMentS

Can We Cope With Zero Waste?

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Private sector delegate £190 + vat

Voluntary and public sectors delegate £150 + vat

PAS Volunteers and Friends of PAS £80 + vat

For bookings for community groups or organisations, please contact Mark Armstrong for further information mark@planningaidscotland.org.uk or telephone 0131 220 9730

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Payment must be made in advance. Cancellations within 30 days incur full charge, prior to 30 days 50% charge will apply. Substitutions can be made free of charge.