Panelists
Our expert panelists and moderators
Eric Lombardi
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Eric is working to connect the people and best practices from around the world to facilitate the building of Zero Waste Communities through the creation and expansion of the “Social Enterprise” model. Read More
Gerry Higgins
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Gerry Higgins is Managing Director of Social Enterprise World Forum and Director of International Enterprise at Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS). Read More
Marco Ricci – Jürgensen
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
rco Ricci – Jürgensen is highly considered as an expert who conceives waste and recycling issues going beyond technical detailsRead More
John Fischer
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Fischer is Branch Chief for Commercial Waste Reduction and Waste Planning at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).Read More
Kat Heinrich
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Kat Heinrich is a food waste specialist in Australia and winner of the 2017 GISA Women in Waste Leadership Award.Read More
Louise Edge
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Louise Edge is an Environmental Campaign Coordinator at GreenpeaceRead More
Libby Peake
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Libby Peake is senior policy adviser on resource stewardship at Green Alliance, a UK based independent charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.Read More
John Gertsakis
July 8, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Gertsakis is a sustainability practitioner with experience as an industry adviser, consultant, research academic and advocate. He is the co-founder of the newly formed Ewaste Watch Institute, and he co-authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products. Read More
Madeline Keating
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Madeline Keating is an Urban Fellow with NRDC’s Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program and is the City Lead in Denver for NRDC’s Food Matters project.Read More
Elaine Blatt
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Elaine Blatt is a Senior Policy and Program Analyst at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Read More
Peter Canepa
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Peter Canepa joined the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in January 2017, providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expertise to Oregon’s Materials Management program.Read More
Vaughan Levitzke
April 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Vaughan Levitzke has more than 35 years’ experience in government, project management and leadership. Vaughan established Zero Waste SA in 2003 and is responsible for a multitude of programs and projects carried out by Zero Waste SA and its partner organisations, … Read More
Silpa Kaza
March 15, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Silpa Kaza is an Urban Development Specialist in the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice.Read More
Christian Bremer
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Christian Bremer is currently working as the Managing Director at SSI SCHÄFER. Read More
Jürgen Jacoby
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Jürgen Jacoby, is the International Sales & Business Development at Envac Optibag AB.Read More
Bernd Leowald
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Bernd Leowald is the head of the department Northwest at Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH). The SRH is the municipal waste management company in Hamburg with 2600 employees. The department Northwest is a part of Hamburg with 620.000 inhabitants and an area … Read More
Rosa Arias
October 10, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Rosa Arias is the Founder of Science for Change and the creator of the citizen science App OdourCollect, to build up collaborative odour maps.Read More
Costas Velis
October 3, 2018 | be Waste WiseCostas Velis is the Chair of the ISWA Task Force on Marine Litter and Lecturer on Resource Efficiency Systems at University of Leeds.Read More
Stiv Wilson
September 25, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Stiv Wilson is Director of Campaigns at The Story of Stuff project. Read More
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz
September 25, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 9, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 9, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Beth Schmitt is Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships at The Recycling Partnership.Read More
Amity Lumper
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Amity Lumper is Co-President and Director of Cascadia Consulting Group’s Recycling and Materials Management practice.Read More
Sarah Currie-Halpern
July 31, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
Clare Miflin
May 11, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Clare Miflin has a deep understanding of environmentally sound building practices, techniques, codes and standards that she applies to all her projects.Read More
David Biderman
March 21, 2018 | be Waste Wise
David Biderman is the Executive Director/CEO, Solid Waste Association of North America
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Antonis Mavropoulos
March 21, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
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
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Jeremy Horner is the Director of Programs at Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP).Read More
Simon Houghton
November 22, 2017 | be Waste WiseSimon Houghton is the Strategy and Business Development Director at Agriprotein.Read More
Kirstie Pecci
September 1, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Kirstie Pecci is an environmental, real estate and municipal attorney. In January she launched the Zero Waste Project as part of the Healthy Communities, Environmental Justice Program of the Conservation Law Foundation.Read More
Madisen Gittlin
August 31, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Madisen Gittlin is a Program Assistant with Global Green, a national environmental nonprofit, and the American affiliate of Green Cross International.Read More
Olivia Lapierre
August 15, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Olivia Lapierre is a Be Zero ambassador and racial justice activist. She began her transition to a zero waste lifestyle in January 2016. Through Be Zero she works to bring awareness to environmental racism and to provide platforms for POCs in environmental communities, which are traditionally predominantly white spaces.Read More
Mani Vajipey
August 8, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Mani Vajipey is a recycler and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Banyan Nation, a technology driven recycling company that is changing the way India looks at plastics, recycling and waste management.Read More
Christopher Kane
August 7, 2017 | be Waste WiseChristopher Kane is a Campus Coordinator and the Director of Resource Development at the Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN).Read More
Robert Crocker
August 7, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Robert Crocker is the Deputy Director of China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the Author of Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design.Read More
Olivia and Carter Ries
August 6, 2017 | be Waste WiseOlivia and her brother Carter started their own nonprofit called One More Generation (OMG) in 2009 in an effort to help save endangered species for at least One More Generation… and beyond.Read More
Moana Simas
May 24, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Moana Simas is a PhD candidate at the Industrial Ecology Programme, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.Read More
Julie Kearns
May 24, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Julie Kearns is the Founder and Finder at the Minneapolis-based, 3000 ft2, best-in- class, daily vintage/reuse shopping experience known as Junket: Tossed & FoundRead More
Carl Zimring
October 26, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Carl A. Zimring is Associate Professor of Sustainability Studies at the Pratt Institute. He is author of the books Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America (Rutgers UP, 2005), Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States (NYU Press, 2015), and Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017).Read More
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