Stuart Hayward-Higham is Chief technical development and innovation officer SUEZ recycling and recovery UK.

He is currently responsible for a range of strategy, policy, commercial and innovation development activities for SUEZ UK. Stuart works across the whole value chain from collection to end of waste in SUEZ and across the value chain from working on how design influences waste outcomes to new products from waste such as repaired and reused items to fuels and chemicals from residual waste. Stuart uses data to help define and deliver waste prevention, reuse, circular and sustainable solutions, carbon or resource consumption reduction and insight for improvement across the full value chain.

Stuart has over 30 years’ of experience in the environmental, resource and waste industry and has amassed wide technical and commercial skills and experience in the systems of management, markets, strategy, technologies and the environment. He is a fellow of CIWM.

Stuart’s other sector or association activities

Member of the Government Circular Economy Task Force

Member of the pEPR PACKUK Scheme Administrator Steering Group & Efficient and Effective Technical Advisory Committee

Trustee of Recoup, a charity involved in plastic recycling

Sherpa for the Net Zero Council

Steering Board member of the Renewable Energy Association Organic recycling group

Lead SUEZ group worldwide expert in carbon and GHG monitoring.

Follow Stuart on X (Twitter )- @stuhhigh_suezUK