Welcome to the Website for Peter Jones OBE of Ecolateral.

Peter T Jones was until May 2008 a Director of Biffa Waste Services Limited with specific responsibilities in external affairs and strategy development. He now operates as a freelance Advisor in matters strategic relating to the waste, carbon and materials efficiency Agenda.  He is a member of the Chartered Institutes of Marketing, Transport, and Wastes Management, and operates in roles demanding specific skills in the development and management of change processes in sectors undergoing substantial upheaval due to competitive, regulatory, or other pressures.  He qualified as an Industrial Economist and in July 2007 received an Honorary Degree from the University of Southampton as a Doctor of the University for work associated with Environmental technologies.

Peter retired as  Chair of the DEFRA/DTI Resource Efficiency KTN in Summer 2009 but continues as a Board member of the reformed Resource Efficiency KTN.  In 2003 he became a member of the DEFRA New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, their Data Advisory Panel, and the Sustainable Consumption and Production Taskforce (for which he Chaired a subcommittee looking at the issues around distributed energy systems in the UK which reported in 2008). He has  given evidence to a range of Parliamentary Select Committees over the years on waste, sustainability, resource efficiency.

Please visit the about page to read more about Peter.

Update May 2012

Peter is Chairman of W2T read more by clicking here

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