A bit about me, and my Blog - a Chronology of this Site's Development
Who am I?
My name is Chris Harmer, and I live in Gloucestershire in the UK.
I retired some years ago from being an electronics engineer with a large aerospace company. I was involved with many different projects, ending in helping write EU law as standards for large civil aircraft. I graduated from the Open University.
My interest in waste, recycling and air pollution stems from before my retirement during the 1990s when I was amazed by the number and size of landfills that I saw expanding and filling during regular train travel to London. This brought home to me the utter unsustainability of this, the then dominant method of waste disposal. I was subsequently asked to chair the Waste and Pollution Working Group of Vision 21, Gloucestershire's Local Agenda 21, and my interest (and frustration!) with the waste sector has grown from there. I am interested in both local authority waste performance, researching best practice in order to remove excuses and inertia, and routes to a circular economy, particularly more locally. I have campaigned against incineration because there are better ways to handle our waste and save valuable resources from being burnt. From that has grown an increasing awareness of the potential air pollution caused by incineration, extending to other souces of air pollution. That has involved a lot of online research yielding information that might be of real use to others. I have set up this website proimarily in order to share that information.
My name is Chris Harmer, and I live in Gloucestershire in the UK.
I retired some years ago from being an electronics engineer with a large aerospace company. I was involved with many different projects, ending in helping write EU law as standards for large civil aircraft. I graduated from the Open University.
My interest in waste, recycling and air pollution stems from before my retirement during the 1990s when I was amazed by the number and size of landfills that I saw expanding and filling during regular train travel to London. This brought home to me the utter unsustainability of this, the then dominant method of waste disposal. I was subsequently asked to chair the Waste and Pollution Working Group of Vision 21, Gloucestershire's Local Agenda 21, and my interest (and frustration!) with the waste sector has grown from there. I am interested in both local authority waste performance, researching best practice in order to remove excuses and inertia, and routes to a circular economy, particularly more locally. I have campaigned against incineration because there are better ways to handle our waste and save valuable resources from being burnt. From that has grown an increasing awareness of the potential air pollution caused by incineration, extending to other souces of air pollution. That has involved a lot of online research yielding information that might be of real use to others. I have set up this website proimarily in order to share that information.
Note that the Weebly blog below is both intermittent and very irritating at present. I am trying to get it sorted.