As the summer departs, the evenings start to draw in and the thwack of willow on leather gives way to the thump of boot on ball, the environment sector has been flocking to Isonomia in increasing numbers. September brought a fruitful harvest of new articles from regular contributors like Phillip Ward and Mike Brown, the welcome return to the site of Martin Steiner and Peter Jones OBE, and a great Isonomia debut from Carolyn Cross, who we hope to see more from in future.
Each of these pieces drew in readers from far and near, and prompted discussions and comments on LinkedIn, E2B Pulse and elsewhere. Peter Jones OBE in particular received an intriguing mix of support (from sustainability types) and dismissal (from skip hire companies) as he foresaw a fundamental change in waste logistics. However, it was Martin Steiner whose article proved the most popular with readers last month, his Postcard from Kyrgyzstan following in the footsteps of his joint effort with Ulrich Wiegel, which remains Isonomia’s most read article. Disappointingly, though, our readership in Bishkek is not yet at the level we would want it to be, but we are starting from a low base.
Phillip Ward remains the man the readers keep coming back to, cementing his position this month with a peek inside the mysterious “black bag waste stream,” which Owen Paterson will soon need to dive into as Defra strives to produce sensible guidance on the waste hierarchy.
The admin desk is looking forward to another bumper crop of articles: new author Amy Slack will be telling us about the world of bin deliveries and how restrictions on local authority funding may be changing how such projects are carried out; and new pieces are coming from James Fulford and Adam Baddeley that we just couldn’t fit in last month. It should be varied and interesting, so keep coming back
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