Justin first dove into the dumpster in 1998 at the Summit Recycling Project in the mountains of Colorado. In 2000 Justin moved south to New Mexico where he led both nonprofit and government-owned recycling and composting efforts; from local endeavors to statewide initiatives. After serving on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Recycling … Read more
Peter Anderson is President of RecycleWorlds Consulting, Executive Director of the Center for a Competitive Waste Industry, and Project Director for the multi-state Plastic Redesign Project. He has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Department of Applied Economics on recycling systems, chairperson of the National Recycling Coalition Policy Workgroup and its Landfill Subcommittee … Read more
Heidi Solba is the Founder, President, and Head of the Global Network at Let’s Do It World NGO. With belief that everything is possible, the biggest task to her during 2016 – 2018 was to create a worldwide network in 150 countries, with whom in Let’s Do It World to lead the World Cleanup Day … Read more
Scott Morrison is co-founder of DreamZero, a reusables consultancy and event service located in Toronto. Scott has worked as a sustainability consultant since 2003, specializing in waste prevention and reporting. Scott was the first Canadian to achieve TRUE Advisor designation, was the founding Executive Director of Zero Waste Canada and sat on the Board of … Read more
Freddy has been an advisor, and organizer with Zero Waste Youth USA since 2014. The youth organization is a volunteer-run organization based out of the San Francisco Bay Area that connects students and young professionals passionate for the Zero Waste and climate action movements. Freddy and ZWY organizing members have produced 9 annual conferences dubbed … Read more
A civil litigator for 32 years in San Diego, Ms. Mendez is legal counsel to the Save the AlbatrossCoalition. After obtaining a Master of Advance Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation in 2018 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and leading the transformation of that campus and U.S. San Diego to be single-use plastic-free, Ms. Mendez … Read more
Charles Moore is the Captain of Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita, and the founder of three NGOs,: Algalita Marine Research and Education, Long Beach Organic and the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research. In 1999, he became the first researcher to sample plastics floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and wrote about marine plastic pollution … Read more
Chrise is an independent Zero Waste specialist, educator, and advocate. As the Zero Waste Commission’s Chair, she designed and facilitated the public outreach and input-gathering efforts for the City of Berkeley’s 2019 landmark Single-Use Disposable Food Ware & Litter Reduction Ordinance. This process resulted in proposing to Council key revision recommendations that were instrumental in … Read more
Jeremy Drake is a Zero Waste consultant with over 10 years of experience in community planning, program planning and implementation, stakeholder engagement, and education. Jeremy was the lead author of the Missoula ZERO by FIFTY Zero Waste Plan and facilitated a Zero Waste planning process with Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS), culminating in a strategic … Read more
Amanda is a Zero Waste consultant working with communities to build their Zero Waste Master Plans. Amanda lives in Gainesville, FL and has been instrumental in getting Gainesville and Alachua County on the path to Zero Waste through her volunteer work as co-chair of Zero Waste Gainesville. Amanda is also the Director of Zero Waste … Read more