July and August have seen the sub editors on the admin desk having to be physically restrained from peppering Isonomia’s articles with unnecessary Olympics references. We hope our readers appreciate the efforts to contain our highly trained pun-tathletes from cashing in on a once in four years opportunity.
For a second successive month, Mike Brown took the gold medal for readership – his exploration of the problems with Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre grabbed the attention of readers from Kernow and beyond, following hard in the wake his first piece for Isonomia on the great trommel fines debate. If he keeps this up, Mike will be joining the chase for the top of the all time leader board before long.
In that competition, Phillip Ward responded to slipping into the silver medal spot last month with a brace of articles in July. Both were top notch, but it was his piece looking at the potential for disruptive innovation in waste that propelled him back to the top of the podium. There were also strong performances during July from Joe Papineschi (discussing the role of collectors in addressing the investment problem in AD) and Peter Jones OBE, who took to the water to look at the potential role of sewerage infrastructure to meet the need for resource recovery centres.
Several contributions for August are already on the blocks, awaiting the starting pistol. Phillip Ward will be giving us the latest in the debate over whether commingled collection is a kind of separate collection, as Defra continue to struggle with the transposition of the Waste Framework Directive. Meanwhile, Chris Cullen has been thinking about the issue of mixed plastics recycling, and we have been talking with a potential new contributor about compost…
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