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We hear from David Greenfield about Tech Takeback, a partnership he set up to collect end-of-use consumer technology and get it back into the loop.
“Tech-Takeback” is a partnership between SOENECS, Freegle, EraseMydata and Brighton & Hove City Council to collect stranded resources through pop-up shops.
We talk about how it got started, the complexities of secure data removal, lessons learned, and David’s plans for the next phase of the project. David tells us about his favourite circular economy example: Biohm, in London – and I’ve saved some more of David’s examples for the next ‘Best Bits’ episode (#20).
David is the Managing Director of SOENECS, the independent environmental research and innovation practice he set up in 2014, after 15 years in leadership roles in local and regional government.
SOENECS provides strategic advice and support to the public and private sectors and specialises in the creation and support of innovation in circular economy, resource- and waste-management.
David supports the Circular Economy Club (CEC), with several roles, as a Mentor, as the organiser of CEC London and co-organiser, with my colleague Peter Desmond, of Circular Brighton & Hove.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- David Greenfield on LinkedIn com/in/dr-david-greenfield-646b6b6 and Twitter @DrResources
- Tech Takeback http://techtakeback.com/
- SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS (SOENECS) Ltd http://www.soenecs.co.uk/
- Circular Economy Club https://www.circulareconomyclub.com/
- Cat Fletcher of Freegle https://www.ilovefreegle.org/
- Meanwhile Foundation https://www.meanwhile.org.uk/
- Andy Burdon of Erase My Data http://www.erasemydata.uk/
- Martin Charter, Director of The Centre for Sustainable Design & Professor at University for the Creative Arts org.uk linkedin.com/in/martin-charter-frsa-6289097
- Ugo Vallauri, one of the founders of the Restart Project – a people-powered social enterprise that aims to fix our relationship with electronics https://therestartproject.org
- Biohm https://www.biohm.co.uk/
Dr David Greenfield FCIWM FRSA CEnv
David is the Managing Director of SOENECS, the independent environmental research and innovation practice he set up in 2014 following 15 years in leadership roles in local and regional government. SOENECS provides strategic advice and support to the public and private sectors and specialises in the creation and support of innovation in circular economy, waste management and resource management. SOENECS offer energy opportunity assessments to the faith and private sector. David has also spent over 20 years advising local and regional government on major procurement, renewable deployment & partnership delivery. In 2018, he authored a chapter for the UK Chief Scientists report.
In the last two years David has co-created and is managing:
- The Department for Transport (DfT) funded research project “Pothole Spotter” – using existing assets (RCVs’) to prevent potholes using HD cameras and the potential of AI.
- “Tech-Takeback” – a partnership between SOENECS, Freegle, EraseMydata and Brighton & Hove City Council to collect stranded resources through pop-up shops.
- “The Hove Trinity Trust” – a revolving fund for investment in energy efficiency and community access in churches in Hove.
David is responsible for External Affairs in Europe for the “Circular Economy Club (CEC)”, he is also a Mentor and the organiser of CEC London and co-organisers Circular Brighton & Hove. The Circular Economy Club (CEC) is the international network of over 3,100 circular economy professionals and organizations from over 100 countries.
He is an experienced board director and advisor, being non-executive Chair of the CIWM Enterprises Board, Trustee and Director of Freegle, Chair of the ICE Resource Management Panel, Non-Executive Director of Biohm, past non-exec Chair of ADBA, Government Adviser to DEFRA as part of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) working group and MHCLG as National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) advisor on waste and design. He is an advisor and past chair to the local authority National Waste Network Chairs (WNC). He guest lectures at 5 different universities.
He is a Chartered Waste Manager, a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and a Chartered Environmentalist.
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