Vanessa Fandrich
Vanessa joined Brook Lyndhurst in June 2010 from EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, where she was a senior policy advisor leading on waste, resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production policy.
Business Resource Efficiency
At EEF, Vanessa led on a number of projects to identify the key challenges and opportunities for businesses to implement more resource efficient behaviours and practices, including delivery of an in-depth study on business benefits from sustainable resource management and EEF ’s annual environmental performance surveys. Vanessa has also been heavily involved in the design and development of Envirowise’s online support package for business resource efficiency .
Waste Strategy
Prior to working at EEF, Vanessa played an integral part in the delivery of a revised national strategy for waste (Waste Strategy 2007). Projects included evaluation of progress on the previous strategy (Waste Strategy 2000), organisation and management of key stakeholder events, management of consultation processes and analysis of responses, future proofing policy options and drafting and editing parts of the consultation and strategy documents.
Vanessa has a Masters degree in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a first class Bachelors degree in Environmental Management from the University of North London.
Prior to joining Brook Lyndhurst, Vanessa was a member of the government’s National Waste Stakeholder Group, Waste Framework Directive Implementation Group, SCP Business Steering Group and the Waste Protocols Advisory Group.
Vanessa is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).
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Recycling: A duty, not a choice?
I experienced strangely conflicted responses this morning when I saw this Hammersmith & Fulham bin lorry outside our office. Conflicted because, on the one hand, I wholly agree with the message - recycling is a duty - a moral one if not necessarily a statutory one. But at the same time, the tone of the [...]
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iDisappointment
It was reported this week that Apple have refused to include their iPhones in the UK’s first green-ranking scheme for mobile phones, launched in a partnership between O2 and Forum for the Future. There have always been things that have irked about Apple products, of course, such as the non-replaceable batteries (I’m all for sleek [...]
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A slow boat to Shetland
The ferry which waits in Aberdeen is huge and satisfyingly industrial. We enter through a carpeted lobby with a split staircase, then walk out to the stern deck and stand looking out over the greyscale buildings of Aberdeen and the murky waters of the dock. As we pull out of the harbour the seascape broadens [...]