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The following are examples of unsolicited feedback on Beyond Waste's work.

• "Thanks so much for your good work."
  - Chindarat Taylor, Director, Pathway To Zero Waste, on a report produced by Beyond Waste mapping food waste hotspots from businesses in the South East
• "I am very pleased that you are able to pick up some of these leads and run with them... I would like you to do more of this for the bulky project."
  - Diana Lock, Chief Executive, Remade South East, about Alan Potter's work in brokering deals between carpet waste producers and recyclers as part of an ERDF funded project supporting the creation of a national action plan for Carpet Recycling.
• "I was very pleased with the meeting and am happy with the survey results to date."
  - Diana Lock, Chief Executive, Remade South East, following an industry meeting at which Beyond Waste presented the preliminary results of an investigation of Bulky Waste quantities and flows in the South East as part of an ERDF funded project.
• "Thank you for the work and reports that you did for the Steering Group - I thought the meeting was very useful, and ably guided by your reports and commentary."
  - Adrian Lee, Hampshire County Council, of Beyond Waste work preparing the Strategic Waste Management Report for the South East
• "Thanks for today - very well facilitated and a good mix with you, Keith and Michael complementing each other."
  - David Payne, Planning Manager, SEERA, about a stakeholder workshop Beyond Waste organised and ran as part of a project looking at regional potential for CHP and district heating.
• "Thanks Alan for your excellent contribution on Monday, and for being so generous with your insights."
  - Lewis Herbert, Anglia Ruskin University, Leader of Course on Waste Planning, for which Alan Potter delivered opening lectures on policy context.
• "You've done a terrific job."
  - Skip company, about Beyond Waste's handling of an application to extend the planning consent for their recycling site (which gained unanimous approval at planning committee).
• "Absolutely professional - I can see we are in good hands."
  - Chindarat Taylor, Programme Director of Pathway to Zero Waste, about Beyond Waste recruitment and organisation of pioneering regional stakeholder workshop for food waste solutions. (Workshop report to follow).
• "Do you know anyone who can cast a different eye over Water Industry/Water Quality issues? Someone like you that knows the background but likes to challenge conventional thinking."
  - John Gower, Environment Agency, client for EWM LCA project
• "The report seems very important and includes also some very good nuances in the way your answer your three questions."
  - Christina Fischer, European Topic Centre for Waste European Environment Agency, on the completion report on the European Waste Management Project, Towards Sustainable Recycling in Selected EU Regions and Member States: An Assessment of Capacity & International Flows [http://www.southeast-ra.gov.uk/documents/sustainability/waste/assessment_of_capacity_and_flows_of_recyclates-ewm_project_161008.pdf]
• "This is a phenomenally important piece of work."
  - Professor Pat Harvey, University of Greenwich, about a comprehensive review of drivers affecting the development of second-life material markets undertaken by Beyond Waste to inform the formulation of ReMade South East's business plan.
• "Thanks for your input and challenge yesterday. It was appreciated."
  - Jan Jonker, Head of Strategy, Brighton and Hove City Council, concerning Alan Potter's contribution to a senior project board meeting guiding the municipal waste strategy development process
• "The report comes across as thorough and authoritative. You navigate well through a complex story. I particularly liked the way you highlighted any issues with the data and its extrapolation."
  - Dr Paul Shannahan, about a report Beyond Waste produced for ReMade Kent & Medway on plastics recycling
• "I read the Italy Profile and I congratulate you on the work."
  - Comment from Italian partner in European Waste Management project about profile of Italian recycling markets prepared by Beyond Waste
• "Thanks for the super fast turn around... you've now set a high standard for everyone else!"
  - Johanna Dickson, Project Development Officer, Kent ReMade
• "I've read your profile and must admit that it's an impressive piece of work."
  - Ruud Paap, Dutch regional waste managment company, about a profile on recycling activity in the Netherlands produced by Beyond Waste as part of its review of recycling markets in selected member states.
• "Thanks for coming to Krakow and leading the debate so well."
  - David Payne, Planning Manager, South East England Regional Assembly, on Alan Potter's attendance at an international meeting on recycling in Poland.
• "Thanks for your input on Friday - I think everyone found the explanation of HiView/the audit trail useful!"
  - Jan Jonker, Head of Strategy, Brighton and Hove City Council
• "Your work was very useful, it would have been good if we could have had more!"
  - Will Fawcett, on work Beyond Waste did supporting DEFRA in processing responses to the Planning/Permitting consultation.
• "I really liked the way you got everyone to contribute to the discussion - thank you"
  - Andy Kent, ReMaDe Kent & Medway, about a session of ReMaDe's partnership steering group that Beyond Waste guided in clarifying its strategic direction and developing a shared action plan. The session explored and aligned stakeholder expectations and concluded with a series of specific commitments. This recognised that, for each partner to be committed to the shared vision, an exchange needs to take place: each partner gave offers of support to ReMaDe, while specifying a request in return.
• "Thank you for your contribution (and help facilitating) at last Friday's meeting. We all felt that it was a very productive session."
  - Dr Andy Fraser, DEFRA, on Alan Potter's attendance at a joint DEFRA/DCLG invitation-only workshop on the interface between pollution control and planning control regimes. Alan suggested that both the process and the process output needed to be considered, and proposed that a scenario-based approach be taken to explore the implications of aligning the interface between the regimes. He was able to draw on his experiences of working as part of the Environmental Analysis Cooperative - a model of industry and regulator cooperation. The Cooperative has already done detailed work looking at parallel-tracking applications and optimising processes, to ensure that the burden on industry and regulators is minimised and unnecessary duplication and overlap is avoided. He has been invited to attend a further meeting to help work up recommendations for Ministers.
• "Thank you very much for pulling the stops out yesterday"
  - Mike Pashler, Wealden District Council, relating to the submission of a Waste Management Licence application for an MRF operated by the Council. The Environment Agency was threatening to close the facility if an application had not been submitted by the end of the day. Beyond Waste was drafted in at the eleventh hour to prepare the application and negotiate with the Agency and sewerage undertaking on the discharge arrangements for the site. An application was prepared and submitted within 3 weeks of meetings with the Agency and sewerage undertaking.
• "I thought yesterday went very well and you did an excellent facilitation job"
  - Nick Hutchinson, Ecosys, concerning the inaugural meeting of the Advisory Panel for the Brighton and Hove City Waste Management Strategy that Alan Potter of Beyond Waste led. Beyond Waste has been appointed to provide specialist support to the complete strategy preparation process and has designed an innovative programme of community engagement.
• "Really interesting work"
  - Dave Ricketts, Surrey County Council, in relation to a report given by Beyond Waste (PDFs: Part I [http://www.southeast-ra.gov.uk/our_work/planning/sust_nat_res/recycling_capacity-oct06-part1.pdf], Part II [http://www.southeast-ra.gov.uk/our_work/planning/sust_nat_res/recycling_capacity-oct06-part2.pdf]) on the findings of its European survey of recycling markets.
• "I was very impressed by your report - you covered all the issues and anticipated queries from the group (SEEDA's Waste Market Development Group) very well. I could see that a lot of hard work had gone into it"
  - Diana Locke, Kent ReMade, about a presentation of the findings of Beyond Waste's investigations into recycling and reprocessing capacity needs in the South East region.
• "A very good report"
  - Jim Braithwaite, SEEDA Chairman. Alan Potter addressed the South East Region Waste Market Development Group about the scoping study of recycling and reprocessing capacity that Beyond Waste was commissioned by SEEDA to undertake. (Note: the report is being finalised and will be placed on SEEDA's website in due course - a link to the report will be made from this site).
• "Well done, and thanks. You've done a great job."
  Kingston Transport Ltd. (a skip company) on the granting of planning consent for a new waste recycling site in Lewes, for which Beyond Waste produced the application.
• "Thanks very much for giving an excellent talk last night, which was also filled with humour."
  - The Constructing Excellence Club for Brighton, on a talk on waste minimisation in the construction sector delivered by Alan Potter at their AGM.
• "I was impressed that you captured all the points of our discussion and managed to make sense of it all in your report."
  - Graeme Carus, Director of Business Development for European Metal Recycling (EMR), on the Beyond Waste-facilitated vision event report produced for SEEDA (PDF).
• "Many thanks for all your work on this. We are pleased with what you have produced and the way in which you have done it. We have received a number of positive comments about how you handled the interviews (and nothing negative)."
  - Kent County Council, on the Waste Management Sector WDF Engagement report (PDF) produced by Beyond Waste.
• "You did really well to guide the discussion towards agreement"
  - Attendee of Buckinghamshire public consultation workshop session facilitated by Beyond Waste (see news for February 2006).
• "Many thanks for the talk that you gave to our students last Monday. The content was just right and the PowerPoint was useful."
  - Bernard Bourdillon, Anglia Ruskin University, on Alan Potter's lecture on the emerging Waste Planning regime in January 2006.

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