My name is Lucy and I’m a slack blogger.
I have an excuse of course. You may, if you have a good memory, recall that my last post mentioned the depletion of my team. Well, I finally fixed that in mid-December when we found the money to get someone in to cover for the poor soul who’s still off injured.
So, what have I been doing since October? Running round like a headless chicken mostly – or at least that’s how it felt at the time.
In November, I organised 3 workshops for stakeholders to talk about the review of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992. We got a really good turn out from local authorities but also decent representation from some Schedule 2 customers – particularly the NHS. I found them all really useful, with enough similar ideas coming forward at each to give me confidence that there was a consensus on many issues, but also enough new perspectives to make each one valuable in its own right.
The workshops also highlighted those key customer sectors that we don’t seem to have reached; in particular, schools and higher education. A number of people from the education sector were specifically invited to the workshops, but I’ve clearly failed to make a good case for them to spend precious time talking to us. The research shows that educational facilities are the largest producers of Schedule 2 waste, so I’m currently working on redressing that failure.
Unfortunately being short-staffed has meant that I haven’t produced the report of the workshops yet, but we’re working on that now and I hope to publish it in a few weeks time. Slack blogging tendencies permitting, I’ll put up a link here.
17 January 2010, 8:57 pm
Yay for slack bloggers – really great to see you writing about your work and experiences here. Will hopefully inspire other policy officials to follow suit!