Plastic Free Q&A

Do you have questions about living plastic-free including why anyone would attempt it in first place and do not know whom to ask? This is the perfect panel for all your questions. Read More

Stiv Wilson

Stiv Wilson is Director of Campaigns at The Story of Stuff project. Read More

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz is the founder of the for-purpose, Plastic Free July Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that brings the public and business together with the vision of a world without plastic waste. Read More

Kate Bailey

Kate Bailey is a leading authority on Zero Waste best practices and focuses on the facts, details, and logistics that help Zero Waste initiatives succeed.Read More

Mitch Hedlund

Prior to founding the nonprofit standardized label initiative and Recycle Across America®, Mitch Hedlund had over 20 years experience in marketing, communications, and branding, serving Fortune 500 companies, as well as midsized companies. Read More

Stephen Bates

is an accomplished, and highly-effective International Government, Public Affairs and Behavioural Change Expert with over 25 years of experience leading Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Community Relations and Operations within the global Waste and Resource Recovery sector.Read More

Natalie Starr

Natalie Starr has nearly twenty five years of experience in solid waste management, recycling and resource recovery, and energy consulting including twenty years with DSM Environmental where she is now a Principal.Read More

Lynn Hoffman & Kate Davenport

Lynn Hoffman and Kate Davenport are the Co-Presidents of Eureka Recycling, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, whose mission is to demonstrate that waste is preventable, not inevitable. Read More

Jim Frey

Jim Frey offers over 35 years of expertise in recycling and waste management program development for public services and private enterprises. Read More

Emma Burlow

Emma Burlow is one of the UK’s leading specialists on circular economy and resource efficiency in businesses and has more than 20 years’ experience in the sectorRead More

Chaz Miller

Chaz Miller’s career in waste and recycling spanned four decades with stints at the US EPA Office of Solid Waste, the Glass Packaging Institute and the National Waste and Recycling Association. Although he is now retired from full time work, he consults and continues to write his award-winning column “The Circular File” for Waste360.Read More

Beth Schmitt

Beth Schmitt is Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships at The Recycling Partnership.Read More

Amity Lumper

Amity Lumper is Co-President and Director of Cascadia Consulting Group’s Recycling and Materials Management practice.Read More

“Our advice to people who want to make change is to build relationships” – Sarah Currie-Halpern

Sarah Currie-Halpern is Co-Founder and Partner in Think Zero LLC, and she speaks with us in our Pioneers & Changemakers interview series.Read More

Sarah Currie-Halpern

Sarah Currie-Halpern is Co-Founder and Partner in Think Zero LLC. Previously she ran Solid Waste and Zero Waste Programs for the Mayor’s Office of NYC, where she helped develop the Zero Waste section of OneNYC and the Waste section of the recent 80×50 plan.Read More

2018 be Waste Wise Pioneers – Media

2018 be Waste Wise Pioneers List (Media) is out! Read More

2018 Waste Pioneers List – Individuals

The 2018 be Waste Wise Pioneers List recognizes individuals that are effectively sharing solutions to waste management and stories about their workRead More

2018 Waste Pioneers List – Organizations

Announcing the 2018 be Waste Wise Pioneers List which recognizes the organizations that are effectively sharing solutions to waste management and stories about their work.Read More

Nadine Cavusoglu

Nadine holds an MBA from the New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a Certificate in Business Strategies for Social Impact from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.Read More

Mara Vasileiou

Mara Vasileiou is an Environmental Engineer that has worked as a researcher in the past for the Swedish Museum of Natural History in StockholmRead More

Kylee Neniska

Kylee Neniska graduated from Lethbridge college in Alberta with an Environmental Assessment and Restoration diploma.Read More

Introduction To Community Waste Management

Dealing with waste is an urgent public health priority

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“‘Architects do not really think of waste management in terms of building design materials” – Clare Miflin

We can do more to fix the problem since waste is a flaw that stems from design of buildings.Read More

Clare Miflin

Clare Miflin has a deep understanding of environmentally sound building practices, techniques, codes and standards that she applies to all her projects.Read More

What is Pre-cycling? James Greyson explains

Pre-cycling is the action of implementing the circular economy vision.Read More

Pace of Change in The Environmental & Sustainability Movements

Over the decades, there are more people engaged with more ecological or waste initiatives around the world. However that hasn’t affected the total material requirements, or a structural switch from a linear to a circular pattern. Read More

What is BlindSpotting? James Greyson Answers

James Greyson, of Blindspot Think Tank explains what blindspotting means.

This excerpt is part of be Waste Wise’s interview with James Greyson, as part of the Pioneers & Changemakers series.Read More

Joanna Barnett

Joanna is passionate about spreading awareness on environmental issues and enjoys the challenge of breaking down potentially complex ideas for a broad audience. Read More

Selby Wilkinson

Selby Wilkinson is a BA of Media Studies student at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in bridging the gap between media and sustainability. Read More

“Most good practices are primarily linked to municipalities with good leaders” – Sanjay Gupta

In places where the political will is lacking, the corruption is higher.Read More

“There is limited transparency and comparability in waste data” – Interview with Cole Rosengren

It’s hard to acquire good data because local governments in the industry are not always transparentRead More

“Everyone can relate to plastics in our daily life” – Maxine Perella

There is a shift in how CE is being translated, and is becoming more relevant to consumers.Read More

“Over 500 pounds of raw material is used to make a smartphone” – Interview with Kyle Wiens

We believe it is hugely important to get old cellphones to people who will use them or need them. Read More

Kyle Wiens

Kyle Wiens is a right to repair activist, fixing the world’s gizmos one at a time. He is the CEO of iFixit and Dozuki.Read More

Global Survey of Women Working in the Waste Sector

Women of Waste (WOW), an informal group, supported by the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is conducting a survey for women working in the waste management sector in order to collect statistic data and define their needs/ challenges (or) opportunities.The … Read More

Vivek Patil

Vivek is a volunteer with be Waste Wise. His work involves carrying out research to establish partnerships with new organizations. Read More

China Ban and the End of Recycling as We Know It

The ban concerns 24 different materials, which were broadly imported by China earlier. The most important problems will be faced by plastics and plastic recycling programs, at least temporarily.Read More

David Biderman

David Biderman is the Executive Director/CEO, Solid Waste Association of North America
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Antonis Mavropoulos

Antonis Mavropoulos is the founder and CEO of D-Waste and President of ISWA. He has been involved in solid waste management projects for 20 years, in 20 countries and he has completed more than 150 projects.Read More

Josephine Antonio

Josephine Antonio is a consultant in septage management, water supply and wastewater engineering, sanitation and local governance and development planning. She was a former City Planning and Development Coordinator for Dumaguete City, Philippines where she played an instrumental role in implementing reknowned septage and fecal sludge management project for the city. Read More

Goutham Katta

Goutham Katta is the Senior Lead of City Operations for Pune Municipal Corporation. He develops and drives smart city projects and strategy in the field of sanitation, waste, transportation and other sectors.Read More

Habibur Rahman

Habibur Rahman is the Deputy Programme Engineer at Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and leads sanitation work in Bangladesh.Read More

Jeremy Horner

Jeremy Horner is the Director of Programs at Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP).Read More

24-hr composters: There’s no microbe in this universe that can colonize in 24 hrs | Q&A With Dr. Manoj

The 24-hour composting machine—let’s call it 24-hour ‘fryer’—simply removes water and other volatile components out of the organic material thrown into it for composting.Read More

Interview With James Greyson| BlindSpot Think Tank | Pioneers & Changemakers

Blind spotting is a tool for collective survival, if we wish to continue living on this planet, waste, pollution and climate are the global problems, which are part of the package. Read More

Interview With Robert Egger | L.A.Kitchen | Pioneers & Changemakers

How do we not only avoid waste, but how do we do it differently?Read More

Robert Egger

Robert Egger is a 30 year veteran of social enterprise and empowerment, having founded the D.C. Central Kitchen. Campus Kitchens and the L.A. Kitchen.

CONTRIBUTIONS

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“So much attention is paid to what’s wasted in the home when companies get a free pass for doing anything.” – A Q&A With The Ugly Fruit & Veg Campaign

A Q&A with one of our waste pioneers – The Ugly Fruit & Veg CampaignRead More

Experiences of a Waste Management Company on Operating from Local Communities

Gaining trust and getting their license to operate from local communities.Read More

Trends In Waste Management & Waste To Energy Worldwide

Exploring our understanding of waste management systems in developed and developing countries.Read More