Duncan Jones

Senior local government officer, Chartered Waste Manager and member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and the National Association of Waste Disposal Officers with over 29 years experience including household and commercial waste collection services, dry recyclables and organics, waste disposal, bring site networks, household waste recycling centres (DSO and client), public conveniences, clinical, hazardous and bulky waste collections; behavioural change and waste aware programmes. Previous direct responsibility for a revenue budget of £16m including income of £1½m. Operational experience underpinned by prime responsibility for all relevant policy and strategy formulation and implementation including the full suite of typical client-side roles as well as senior leadership roles in direct services successfully working across two tier structures. I was previously Chair of the CIWM Special Interest Group on Waste Prevention and sat on the Institution’s Scientific and Technical Committee responsible for advising the Institution on matters of policy. Currently using these skills to develop both the Hertfordshire Waste Partnership and Hertfordshire Fly Tipping Group working on behalf of 11 partner authorities and a range of external stakeholders to implement and manage Hertfordshire’s Joint Waste Strategy and associated work programmes covering services with an annual expenditure of £89 million. I am the senior executive officer responsible for the Partnership’s long-term governance arrangements as well as providing HWP support to the County Council’s residual waste treatment programme. I also provide internal consultancy for the partner authorities including operational, technical and strategic support to both individual authorities and sub county clusters. This ranges from providing policy guidance and advice to executive Members including Council Leaders and Portfolio Holders to computer modelling collection services with frontline staff delivering efficiencies as well as supporting new service design and implementation.

• Local authority consortium arrangements for selling recyclable materials, Durk Reyner, Welwyn Hatfield BC, August 2010
• Strength in Numbers, Durk Reyner, Welwyn Hatfield BC, January 2011
• Identifying and Delivering Efficiencies in Waste, Durk Reyner, Welwyn Hatfield BC, John Enright, Local Partnerships, November 2011
• A Hert-Felt Campaign, Jennie Probert, Three Rivers DC, Ruth Young Watford BC, June 2018
• Let’s S.C.R.A.P. Fly Tipping, Jennie Probert, Three Rivers DC, April / May 2019
• BBC Panorama – Rubbish Dump Britain, March 2021
• BBC Radio West Midlands – The Caroline Martin Show, March 2021
• CLA Podcast – How to tackle the surge in fly tipping, December 2021

• Age: 53
• Date of Birth: 6th April 1971