Julia Hailes MBE

Sustainability Pioneer

Waste & Recycling

Christmas
Julia Hailes

Christmas waste (Jan08)

One of the most striking things about Christmas is the amount of waste we all produce. Waste heat, waste light, waste food and most of all waste packaging. Actually, quite

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Landfill
Julia Hailes

Battling for recycling (Oct07)

When I agreed to oppose the motion that ‘Recycling is a waste of time’ it didn’t occur to me that most of the audience would be actively hostile to my

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Food
Julia Hailes

Food Advice (Oct07)

In 2007 I was asked by M&S to help them in developing their food strategy, thinking creatively about what innovations they might consider.   Clearly, sustainability issues relating to food are becoming

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biogas
Julia Hailes

Easter holidays (Apr07)

Juggling Easter holidays with work commitments is a lot easier with an au pair! Alex is Australian and only with me until mid June but she’s wonderful. Had lunch last

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Food
Julia Hailes

Marks & Spencer (Mar07)

I first started working with Marks & Spencer in 2002 when I was commissioned to do a report on sustainability issues relating to the food sector.  The brief was to

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