Not nearly enough plastic is currently captured by recycling in the UK, and until this year we were largely exporting the problem to China for them to deal with.
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Join us for an evening in conversation with Richard Walker, Director for Sustainability and MD, The Food Warehouse by Iceland Foods Ltd.
In a landmark announcement last month, Iceland became the first supermarket to go 'plastic-free' for its own brand products. What inspired their decision? How does it feel to have disrupted the supermarket industry? And what does it take to lead on helping solve one of the 21st Century's biggest environmental challenges?
This event is organised in collaboration with King's Business School, the Entrepreneurship Institute and King's student societies.
Programme:
18:00 Registration
18:30 Richard Walker interviewed by Emily Brothwood, Enactus KCL
20:00 Networking reception
21:00 End
About Richard Walker
After graduating from Durham University in 2001, Richard developed his own property business in Poland before establishing Bywater Properties, a London-based company focused on cross-sector UK property investment and development. It now has projects valued at more than £200m under development, and Richard remains its Chairman. In 2012 Richard joined Iceland Foods, the company established by his father Malcolm in 1970. He worked full-time as a shelf-stacker and cashier in London for a year, before becoming a store manager and afterwards moving to the Iceland Head Office, in 2013. Richard became Managing Director of The Food Warehouse, Iceland’s chain of 55 larger format stores, in 2015. He was also appointed Group Director for Sustainability in 2017.
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