Mike Baxter, BPI
Mike joined BPI in 1988 and has held senior roles within various BPI businesses including polythene extrusion, printing, convertion and recycling. Currently he is responsible for all External Affairs representing BPI at UK and European Governmental levels plus trade associations including PRE, the British Plastics Federation and EuPC.
Mike is also a Director of BPI’s Recycled Products business with responsibility for the Company’s range of Plaswood Recycled Rigid products.
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Roger Baynham, Philip Tyler Polymers
Roger has been Chairman of the British Plastics Federation Recycling Group since 2011 and has close to 30 years experience in the industry with Philip Tyler Polymers LTD where he has been Managing Director since 1994. He has held various other directorships including Environmental Recycling Technologies PLC where he held executive and non executive roles between 2008 -2015. He sits on the management committee of Plastics Recyclers Europe and is Deputy Chairman of the recently formed BPF Sustainability Committee
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Andrew Dick, Zero Waste Scotland
Andy joined Zero Waste Scotland in July 2010, following 6 years at East Renfrewshire Council. His previous role in Zero Waste Scotland was to manage the advice and funding given to all 32 local authorities and he was integral in the publication of the Household Recycling Charter and associate Code of Practice in 2016.
In October 2016, Andy started a new role within the company looking after the policy support given to Scottish Government and overseeing the research and evidence across all of Zero Waste Scotland’s ambitious Programmes. This is a new role within the organisation and seeks to build on the company’s position as being an evidence-led and influential enabler across Scotland, the UK and Europe.
Andy has a degree in Environmental Health from Strathclyde University and is a chartered waste manager with CIWM.
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Keith Freegard, Axion Recycling
Keith is a Director of Axion Recycling Ltd, with over 30 years of operational management experience in a wide range of production environments. In recent years he has led the development Axion’s unique End-of-Life vehicle recycling business in Manchester with a focus on sales and marketing of high-quality plastics, aggregates and alternative fuels made from recovered ELV & WEEE waste streams. He is Vice Chairman of the BPF’s Recycling Group and a non-Executive Director of OPRL – the on-pack recycling label scheme for consumer packaging.
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Richard McKinlay, Axion Consulting
Richard McKinlay Richard graduated from The University of Manchester with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and is currently a Senior Engineer at Axion
Consulting. Richard has worked on a range of projects in the waste and resource sector with Axion covering post-consumer plastics, Waste Electronic and Electrical
Equipment (WEEE), Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and End of Life Vehicles (ELV). Richard led the technical delivery of the REFLEX project, a complete supply chain approach to addressing the barriers facing flexible packaging recycling in the UK.
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Glyn Staines, Dart Products Europe
Over 35 years of experience in the packaging industry, working on metal, paper and plastics developments, and the environmental challenges of each. Glyn has helped improve the understanding of the challenges through education working with universities and associations, as well as developing and introducing many new products utilising recycled materials.
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Tim Walker, Belfast City Council
Tim has been Head of Waste Management at Belfast City Council since 1997 and, during this time, he has introduced many schemes which have increased the City’s recycling rate to over 40% in recent years He has been the Regional Chair for both CIWM and IEMA. He was also Regional Chair for the RSA for five years. In 2012, he was elected as a Trustee of CIWM and, in this capacity, he represent the Institution on the Society for the Environment (SocEnv). He sits on the national Waste Network Coordinators group which considers Government policy and how to deliver it and, as a TAG representative; he works closely with NILGA on similar regional waste and resources management matters as well as sitting on the Dept of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs (DAERA’s) Waste
Programme Board.
For the past year, he has sat on the NI Govt’s Task & Finish Working Group on the Circular Economy to consider how to include this agenda within the emerging outcome-based Programme for Government.
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Damian Walsh, Pulse
Initially a Production and Mechanical Engineer with Land Rover, Damian had developed his career in Business Support with Welsh Government and latterly with WRAP Cymru, his focus being the use of recycled content in manufacture.
Now the Commercial Director of Pulse Plastics and Polymer Extrusions, he has responsibility for driving new sales within both businesses for existing and new products and identification of post-industrial plastic waste to reprocess as feedstock for both production facilities!
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Andy Whyle, Ricoh
Andy Whyle is the Environment & Sustainability Specialist for Ricoh UK Products Limited (RPL), where he has worked for 30 years. As a sustainability practitioner, he is the subject matter expert on the circular economy. RPL achieved zero waste to landfill in 2001 and has had a life cycle circular economy model in place since 1994. These initiatives have embedded their recycling and remanufacturing programs, and are major contributors to the organisation’s 2050 sustainability targets.
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