Research Group: Waste Management

Currently Active:: Yes

The modern waste industry can lay claim to being one of the most dynamic and fast-changing business sectors; the European Union waste and recycling industries alone have a turnover of 95 billion €, providing 1.5 million jobs. Waste management is now multi-disciplinary in nature and the Waste Management Research Group (WMRG) at the University of Southampton is one of the most significant and influential research groups in the world. Its activities have focused on implementing new ideas/technologies, based upon fundamental research and partnership with industry (e.g. energy-from-waste, food waste collection, anaerobic digestion, landfill design, landfill leachate treatment, carbon footprinting, societal influences, behaviour change), and on the optimisation of existing technologies/operations (e.g. waste prevention, re-use, collection and treatment systems; waste logistics).

Group Overview

The WMRG has focused its activities on assisting society and industry to reduce waste, maximise resources and protect the environment from pollution. It has generated ideas and outputs that have, through close engagement with the waste management sector, become part of mainstream waste management thinking nationally and internationally, and provided fundamental data, models, theories and exemplar studies to enable the move to a philosophy and practice of enhanced resource management.

Postgraduate opportunities

You can find all of our projects with guaranteed funding here.

Research Staff

List of all staff members in Waste Management
Staff Member	Primary Position
John Barker	Emeritus Professor
Richard Beaven	Principal Research Fellow
Tom Cherrett	Professor of Logistics and Transport Management
Ioannis (Yannis) A. Ieropoulos	Chair of Environmental Engineering, Head of Water & Environmental Engineering Group, EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grantee, EU PHOENIX COST Action Vice-Chair
Keith Knox	Visiting Professor
William Powrie	Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Tristan Rees-White	Research Fellow
David Richards	Professor
James Rollinson	Postgraduate research student
Harvey Skinner	Experimental Officer
Anne Stringfellow	Senior Research Fellow
Geoff Watson	Research Fellow
Nick Woodman	Senior Research Fellow

Related Projects

List of related projects to Waste Management
Related Projects	Status
Landfill hydraulics	Active
How do we reduce the length of landfill aftercare?	Active
Improving recycling in high-density housing	Active
Improving the environmental performance of business and industry	Active
Reuse and recycling of bulky wastes	Active
Zero waste in industrial networks – the ZeroWIN Project	Active
Sustainable resource management in households	Active
Promoting corporate environmental improvement and sustainable investment	Active
Leachate recirculation and collection systems	Active
Understanding landfill processes	Active
Technologies for bioprocessing organic urban wastes	Active
An options appraisal for remediation of coastal landfills in the Maldives	Dormant

Share this research group Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share this on Weibo