Episode 15 of the Rubbish Talk podcast features our guest Scott Butler from Material Focus.
Scott aims to build and lead innovative and impactful environmental and sustainable organisations. Most recently he set up Material Focus, a non-profit organisation working to build a world where materials are never wasted. With his team he has created and curated the UK wide Recycle Your Electricals behaviour change campaign, produced insightful and novel research on all things e-waste, and funded and supported new collection and drop-off options that are making it easier for more than ten million people in the UK to fix, donate and recycle their old and unwanted electricals.
Before Material Focus, Scott set up and ran the UK operation for the European Recycling Platform (ERP), delivering environmental compliance for electricals, batteries and packaging to hundreds of companies, including many of the world’s tech giants. He then moved to lead on product and service innovation for the European business.
Listen to Episode 15 with Scott Butler here.
You can contact Scott with any business enquiries via his Linked In here.
For more information on Material Focus, please visit https://www.materialfocus.org.uk/ or visit their Linked In profile here.
News Items:
Links to news items discussed on episode 15 are below:
In January 2023 the Scottish Government commissioned Zero Waste Scotland to carry out a review of the environmental impact of and potential policy options for improving the management of single-use e-cigarettes, reducing pollution and enhancing the safe recycling of the products they contain. To download and read the reports visit here.
Dan Cook – the newly inaugurated president of CIWM wants to spend this year focusing on what the sector does well. To read more on what the sector has established in the past year visit here.
To read about the honeybees which have taken over some of Edinburgh’s luxury fashion stores visit here.
A survey by the Environment Agency has revealed 18% of all waste in England, equivalent to 34 million tonnes, is illegally managed by criminals. Visit here to read the whole report.