As the Head of Consulting at Valpak, James has played a vital role in producing a series of reports assessing the impact of legislation change and material flows. Having started his career at Valpak in 2001 working on assessment of the recycling infrastructure in the UK, James has subsequently worked within the policy, business development and consulting teams and as the manager of the Distributer Take Back Scheme before leading innovation and diversification projects around Energy Efficiency and Compliance with legislation.