Following nine years in HM Royal Marines Andy Firman started his career in waste management in 1978 and has managed frontline service delivery ever since.

The one, overriding factor that has dominated his career throughout all these years is the management of change in services, especially, refuse and recycling services, kerbside collections, commercial waste collection, street cleansing and toilet cleaning.

Andy Firman has managed services in both rural and metropolitan communities. His current assignment is with Cardiff County Council, where he has lead a programme to design and implement a fully integrated kerbside waste and recycling collection service for the 150,000 households in the capital city of Wales. This programme is currently 80% complete and has a finish date which will coincide with the end of Andy’s fixed term contract on 31st March 2007.