Resource Hot 100 2022 – 40-11

Marcus Gover (RE-ENTRY)

Chief Executive, WRAP

Marcus Gover joined WRAP in 2007 and succeeded Dr Liz Goodwin OBE to become Chief Executive Officer in July 2016. Marcus has worked in the environment sector for over 25 years, covering many different areas including alternative fuels, clean coal technology, waste management and renewable energy.

 

Boyan Slat (68)
Founder and CEO, The Ocean Cleanup

Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013, a project to create a floating barrier to collect plastic pollution in the ocean.

 

Ray Georgeson (50)
Director, Ray Georgeson Resources Ltd

Former Chief Executive of the Resource Association, WasteAid Trustee and an independent consultant, Ray is the Director of Ray Georgeson Resources Ltd, and was this year appointed Head of Resource Management for Waste & Recycling at Zero Waste Scotland.

 

Steve Carrie (NEW)
Group Director, Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling Ltd

As Director at Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling Ltd, Steve Carrie has accelerated action on hard/difficult to recycle plastics by working in direct and transparent collaboration with others across the value chain, including technology providers and brands.

 

Michael Taylor (66)
Managing Director, Mitie

Michael is the MD at Mitie’s waste business, providing sustainable facilities, property and energy management to a number of public and private-sector clients.

 

 

 

 

Enda Kiernan (RE-ENTRY)
Chairperson, ROI Chartered Institution of Waste Management (CIWM)

Head of Waste Enforcement at Cork County Council, having worked in the local authority sector since 1997. Became Junior Vice President of CIWM in 2016 and was President for the 2018/19 term. 

 

Gill Mulroe (NEW)
Co-Chair, YH Climate Commission
 

 

Gill Mulroe has mentored many people to become chartered managers, running monthly drop-in centres to remove barriers to becoming a chartered manager.

 

Dr Tracey Leghorn (51)
Chief Human Resources and H&S Officer, SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK

Dr Tracey Leghorn joined the Executive Board of SUEZ recycling and recovery UK in August 2018 as Chief HR and H&S Officer. Tracey is an award-winning HR Director who brings to the industry a wealth of experience.

 

Augustus Uadiale (NEW)
Co-Founder, SafeEnviro

Augustus Uadiale launched SafeEnviro - a waste brokerage firm - through the pandemic. SafeEnviro has recently partnered with Nigeria’s government at the Lagos State Waste Management Authority to pioneer West Africa's first waste management academy.

 

Greta Thunberg (13)
Activist

Perhaps the most iconic environment figure, Greta Thunberg has done more than anyone else to push the climate emergency to the top of the public agenda, with her school climate strike sparking a wave of climate activism across the globe.

 

Sian Sutherland (45)
Co-founder, A Plastic Planet

Sian is a Co-founder of plastics campaign group A Plastic Planet and has worked tirelessly to keep the issue of plastic waste at the heart of the public news agenda.

 

Edward Hibbert (77)
Board Chair and CTO, Freegle

Edward is Chair of Directors at Freegle, which aims to encourage reuse by providing a platform for people to exchange unwanted items.

https://www.ilovefreegle.org

Sam Reeve (39)
CEO, Resource Futures

Sam was a founding director of Resource Futures and is now CEO, helping clients to implement sustainable business models.

Steve Gough (RE-ENTRY)
CEO, Valpak Limited

During his 22 years at Valpak, Steve has overseen the development of the UK’s largest database on packaging waste and also managed Valpak’s successful integration into the Reconomy Group. 

 

Steve Eminton (20)
Editor, LetsRecycle.com

Steve has been the Editor of letsrecycle.com since 2000 and specialises in topics such as water, housing and recycling. He is also a Director at Environment Media Group.

 

Wendy Fail (NEW)
Senior Waste Management Officer, Northumberland County Council

Wendy is responsible for coordinating the efforts of area-based technical and front line staff to effectively develop and implement Northumberland County Council’s waste minimisation, education and awareness-raising programmes to assist with the delivery of the Council's waste strategy. 

 

Joining Bristol Waste Company in 2016, Emma was part of the team behind the successful 'Slim My Face – Feed My Waste' food waste campaign in Bristol, which has seen great reductions in food waste in target areas.

 

Rick Hindley (86)
Executive Director, Podback

Rick has worked in the packaging and recycling industry for more than 20 years and joined Podback from the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro), where he was an executive director since 2007. 

 

 

 

Lynne Potter (NEW)
Senior Sustainability Manager Mace

Lynne has championed a plastics reduction programme called "Time to Act" since 2018, reducing Mace's corporate use of single use plastics by 80% and reducing use of single use plastics across construction sites by 20%. 

Paul Cox (NEW)
CEO, Reconomy

Paul Cox joined Reconomy in 1999 as Operations Director. Now CEO, Paul has re-focused Reconomy on a strategy of technology-enablement, dynamic and accurate data for customers, and dedicated service propositions for a broader range of sectors including infrastructure, utilities and commercial industry.

 

John Scanlon (NEW)
CEO, SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK

John’s industrial leadership and strategic vision has been forged over his 28-year career with SUEZ, since joining in 1991 as one of the company’s first employees in the UK. He has been an integral part of the executive committee since 2003.

 

 

Brendan O’Shea (NEW)
CEO, Just Clear

Brendan O'Shea founded Just Clear in 2012 and has won awards for his recycling and reuse approach to waste clearance. His zero to landfill ethos has now been developed and packaged into a sound business model, and he has franchised the Just Clear brand throughout the UK.

 

 

 

Phil Sutton (NEW)
Founder and Innovator – Econpro, Durakerb, Polytag

Phil Sutton has over 20 years experience developing innovative, sustainable solutions for the construction sector. In 2019, Phil launched the ‘describe, tag and trace’ technology Polytag, enabling legislators and brands to implement Digital Deposit Return Schemes, Extended Producer Responsibility regulations and the Plastics Packaging Tax.

 

 

David Palmer-Jones (1)
Group Senior Executive VP for Northern Europe, SUEZ Group

On 1 January 2020, David Palmer-Jones was appointed Deputy Managing Director in charge of the Northern Europe Region and joined the SUEZ Group Executive Committee. David joined SUEZ in 1989 as Director of Business Development for SITA UK.

Dominic Hogg (2)
Director, Equanimator

Dominic is the Founder and former Chairman of Eunomia, now Director at Equanimator. He has worked for over 25 years on environmental issues seeking new approaches and thinking. 

 

https://www.dominichogg.com
 

 

David Attenborough (15)
Broadcaster, BBC

Though the impact of plastic waste on marine environments had already been one of 2017's hot topics, by highlighting it on the BBC's flagship Blue Planet II series Attenborough took the fight to new heights, prompting then Environment Secretary Michael Gove to chase policy changes on a number of fronts. In 2020, he was named as a member of the Earthshot Prize council.

 

 

 

Andy Rees (8)
Head of Waste Strategy, Welsh Government

Andy Rees (OBE) is Head of Waste Strategy for the Welsh Government and works on the transition to a circular economy in Wales.

 

 

Alex Robinson (NEW)
Managing Director, Hubbub

Alex has been Managing Director at environmental behaviour change charity Hubbub since 2018.

 

 

David Newman (7)
Managing Director, ECBPI / BBIA

David Newman founded the BBIA in 2015 and has been at the forefront of promoting bio-based alternatives to plastic.