Join us at our Annual Conference on the 22nd November 2023! 

Click here to access our Delegate Pack

This year, it’s taking place in the Council Chambers at Newcastle Civic Centre, with excellent speakers planned and a brilliant exhibition featuring many of our Friends of NERF, as well as other organisations in our network.

Presentations for each speaker can be found by clicking on their names below:

Agenda (for timings click here)

Paul Vanston, Chief Executive, The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment (INCPEN) – Together, we can get things done

Jason Mitchell, Waste Manager, The Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust –Healthcare waste management

Nigel Tomlinson, Commercial Director (Electrical waste), GAP Group UK –
The Compliant Collection and Recycling of Vapes

Marcus Saxton, Chair of the IBVTA and Chief Executive, Totally Wicked Vapes –
Vapes – The good, the bad and the ugly!

Sir Paul Ennals CBE, Chair of the Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Chair of NEECCo, and Dr Clare Winter, Head of Sustainability, Northumbria Healthcare Trust –
The link between climate change, healthcare and the waste sector