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Putting things off

Yazan: Lucy | 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings

Hello again world.
I haven’t actually abandoned this blog, nor has it lain fallow for want of content.  There is loads going on in the wider world of waste, and, indeed, plenty happening in my little corner of it, I just haven’t had time to write about it.
This is entirely down to my own dreadful time [...]

Flu and Frustration

Yazan: Lucy | 28 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: General Witterings

So, I’ve been stuck at home for a week with flu and have managed to miss probably the single most important meeting for my Schedule 2 review project as a result.
It’s so frustrating when there’s so much going on, and so much that really needs to be done, and I’m stuck under a blanket feeling [...]

New Post, Old News

Yazan: Lucy | 11 June 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Things I Learned Today

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  I’ve been out of the office for two days this week and managed to miss all the excitement!  So now I’m writing a blog post with lots of news, none of which is very new.  Ho hum. 
So, here’s a run down of the Week in Waste so far:
Monday: Environment Secretary [...]

All Quiet on the Waste-rn Front

Yazan: Lucy | 16 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: General Witterings

Sorry about the terrible pun, and the hiatus in posting.  This has been largely due to me having my head down writing staff reports – which is interesting stuff, I do like getting people to start thinking about their aspirations for their career and identifying areas where they need to look for opportunities to develop [...]

Ermine and vermin

Yazan: Lucy | 26 March 2009 | 5 Comments
Categories: General Witterings

On Tuesday, I had my first experience of the House of Lords.  Yes, after 8 and half years in the Civil Service I finally failed to drop oral Parliamentary Questions onto a London-based colleague and had to attend myself.
Oral PQs are an odd sort of thing really.   A member asks a question, which the Minister [...]

Compost bins of desire

Yazan: Lucy | 10 March 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Recycling

So, we’re settling in to the new house, and discovering all the little things that need doing – on top of all the big things that it was already obvious needed doing…
One of the ‘little things’ is the purchase of a compost bin.  I realised after two days of carefully storing my food waste in [...]

Relaxing (sort of)

Yazan: Lucy | 21 January 2009 | 4 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Recycling, Things I Learned Today

I’m on holiday – hooray and hoorah – and yet finding that issues of waste won’t quite let me go.  We’re staying on the Langdale Estate, which has excellent recycling facilities, despite being almost in the middle of nowhere.  Of course, the waste collection facilities here benefit from the economies of scale of a largish [...]

A Very Merry Recycled Christmas!

Yazan: Lucy | 24 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Recycling

Christmas is almost upon us, and tomorrow shiny-eyed tots all over the western world will be ripping open their gifts; losing the tags so that their parents have to spend the next two weeks saying ‘thank you for the present’ while groping desperately for conversational clues as to who bought what; and ignoring hugely expensive [...]

Legislation, Regulation and Consternation

Yazan: Lucy | 21 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

One of the most interesting things about this new job is the amount of legislation associated with it.  I used to work in Flood Management, which was largely governed by permissive legislation (i.e. it allows certain bodies to do certain things, but doesn’t require them to).  Waste Management, on the other hand, is overflowing with [...]

Flu and other things

Yazan: Lucy | 13 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

No, I haven’t abandoned this blog, but I’ve spent quite a lot of the last few weeks hiding under a duvet and wishing for a swift end!
So, time for a quick update on what’s going on with municipal waste:
(1) An update to the Waste Framework Directive came into force yesterday, and Member States have 2 [...]