The Environmental Services Association (ESA) is working to transform waste and resource management in the UK. Our work helps enable our members to turn Britain’s waste into valuable resources whilst protecting the environment

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Welcome to the ESA!

The Environmental Services Association (ESA) is the trade body representing the UK's resource and waste management industry. While people talk about the circular economy, our members are helping to bring it about every day.

A sustainable, low-carbon economy of the future depends on quality recycled materials and world-class resources and waste management. ESA members collect, process and deliver these resources and are innovating and investing for a long-term zero-waste, zero-carbon future, building sustainable infrastructure and creating jobs. 

We do this through three strategic goals:

  1. Maximising the use of waste as a vital resource and aiming for a zero-carbon UK
  2. Working with policy makers to create the right conditions for investment in an efficient and high-performing service
  3. Driving the highest standards to protect the environment, the public and our workforce

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Events

Oct 01
Scottish Resources Conference
Oct 1, 2019 – Oct 2, 2019

The Scottish Resources Conference is Scotland’s largest and most important event for sustainability, resource and waste management professionals. The two-day event, run in partnership with CIWM, Zero Waste Scotland and SEPA, sees professionals from private, public and third sector organisations come together to discuss the challenges, issues, innovations and solutions to creating a waste free Scotland.

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Oct 02
LARAC 2019 Conference, Exhibition and Awards
Oct 2, 2019 – Oct 3, 2019

This year the event will take place on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 October - a week earlier than in recent years but still in the autumn slot that has become a traditional  fixture in the diaries of local authority waste and recycling officers. 

The event will also have a new home in 2019 – the Hilton Metropole Birmingham NEC – with its large purpose-built conference facility. 

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Oct 16
Smart Waste, Smart Resources Conference
Oct 16, 2019

Digital solutions are coming to the waste industry, driven by the need for greater accountability and improved resource management. 

Smart Waste, Smart Resources provides an essential opportunity to examine how these developments will affect your business and gives you the tools to prepare for the future.

Discuss government and industry ideas for digitalisation across waste tracking; explore the benefits of more transparent and linked systems; examine the rapidly approaching solutions of AI, Internet of Things, traceable waste and understand what “the cloud” really means.

Aimed at organisations at starter level digitalisation up to advanced systems, with practical sessions and plenty of discussion opportunities, this is your opportunity to explore how your company can prepare for, and benefit from, next generation digital technology.

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