Mr Crocker will join the business after stepping down from the Agency in August after 27 years in the organisation.
Before his appointment to the waste brief in 2011, Mr Crocker had served as head of Fisheries at the Environment Agency and before that Area Environment manager.
Since stepping down in the summer, he is currently listed as an ‘independent consultant’ for Environmental Policy and Regulation Ltd in Bristol.
Formed in 2007, 360 Environmental is a consultancy that specialises in providing waste legislation compliance support to the waste and recycling sector, general industry and the public sector.
The Leicestershire-based business is headed by former Biffa director and current chair of the government’s Advisory Committee on Packaging, Phil Conran, alongside another former Biffa executive Vicki Cooper.
‘Perspective’
Mr Crocker’s appointment to the business will see him offer a ‘unique perspective’ of Environment Agency expectations across a range of compliance issues, while helping to improve waste management practices through mediation and technical support, 360 claimed.
Mr Conran, director of 360 Environmental, said: “We are extremely excited by the opportunities that Mat’s association will provide us to help businesses to meet the ever increasing and complex requirements of waste legislation.”
Mr Crocker’s decision to step down from the Environment Agency comes in the midst of numerous departures from the organisation, which in recent months has continued the process of streamlining its operations in light of government cuts.
‘Progressive’
Mat Crocker added: “I am really looking forward to working with 360 as a principled and progressive business that I have seen apply high standards of regulatory compliance and as a consequence has an excellent reputation in the sector.”
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