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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 [...]

Collection at the Wellcome

Yazan: Lucy | 22 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

On Tuesday I attended the confusingly titled and located Collection Conference at the Wellcome Collection.
It was a very interesting conference from the point of view of a relative newbie to the industry; although all the policy-type stuff was in the first session, I found that the presentations on the operational issues of recycling collections [...]

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 [...]

Comitology

Yazan: Lucy | 04 November 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

After a short break, I’m back into the swing of things at work, and resurrecting my blog from it’s slumbers.
Today I learned the meaning of the word ‘Comitology’, and sadly it is not the scientific study of wandering snowballs from the Kuiper belt…
‘Comitology’ is the delegated legislative procedure in EC law, more correctly know as [...]

Timing is everything (part 2)

Yazan: Lucy | 25 October 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

Today I learned that it is a Bad Idea to start a job-related blog just as one also starts a week’s holiday from said job…
So, some entirely non-waste related learning points today
(1) don’t put brie at the bottom of your shopping trolley, especially if you then go on to buy 24 cans of cat meat.
(2) [...]

Timing is everything

Yazan: Lucy | 24 October 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Things I Learned Today

Today I learned that it is a Bad Idea to start a new job 3 weeks before half-term.  Three weeks is just long enough to have learned enough to be given responsibility for proper work with proper deadlines,  but not long enough to have learned enough to it quickly enough to let you go on [...]