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ROLE AND CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES • To collaborate across all areas of the University for a durable system change to mainstream the principles of a circular economy by working to remove barriers and reform, through developing new ways of working and alignment of existing ways of working. • To accelerate progress of change through measurement and use of data. • To identify areas of investment, and the return on that investment, to develop skills and changes to processes to create circular economy opportunities that will support inclusive transition, supporting innovation and develop infrastructure to scale up the transition. • Identify opportunities that will enable circular economy solutions to become the norm within procurement, supply chain, finance, physical asset, digital infrastructure, operational activity and process etc. • Promote the development of business models and resource management systems that keep materials in the university economy at their highest possible value. • To identify and harmonise resource classifications across the university and align definitions against waste legislation. • To strengthen supply chain resource loops through extended supplier/producer responsibility policies and deposit return schemes to support circular opportunities from reuse to recycling. • To encourage that all assets, products and goods are designed, accessed and used in ways that eliminate waste and pollution. • To optimise the procurement of high-quality goods and packaging with emphasis on durability, reusability, design for repairability, and remanufacturing, recyclability and composability. • To put in place checking and record the provenance and source of goods and packaging and tracking information, via product labels and tags, to assess compliance against principles of circular economy, and to identify potential alternative sustainable product options and to share with procurers and consumers across the university. • Encourage the adoption of regenerative specification content within procurement contracts for goods and services. • To facilitate continuous improvement in the University’s waste and recycling systems, ensure waste policies comply with legislation, ensure suitable and robust contracts are in place for waste disposal and all staff are supported in their wider waste management responsibilities. • To work across the whole university to help deliver sustainable waste management and support a culture transformation to resource circularity/circular economy through responsible consumption. • To minimise total waste from the operation of the university in accordance with our corporate objectives, sustainability strategy targets, environmental management system and legal obligations, and to promote responsible consumption through robustly influencing supply chain to be more sustainable and positively challenging volume and type of consumption across the university. • To introduce the principles of designing out waste and pollution across the university. • To drive and embed responsible consumption through choice of products and materials to keep in use to help regenerate natural systems and reduce waste. • To drive significant reductions in total waste and agreed increases in the proportion of waste recycled as per strategic targets. • Plan for and undertake awareness raising projects and events within the various faculties and support groups within the University. • To be fully conversant with waste management contracts for including recycling, domestic mixed non-hazardous waste streams, and some specific hazardous waste streams such as commercial, contaminated, clinical waste etc.
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