Ross Gibby

Ross Gibby is the Chief Operating Officer of CRDC Global and President of CRDC USA. Ross is on a mission to end plastic waste and reduce CO2 through market-driven innovation.  He is an entrepreneur with a diverse background inoperations, business development, marketing, communications, brand innovation and content creation.  Following an MFA from Rutgers University, Ross was … Read more

Natasha Dyer

Natasha Dyer currently serves as Community Programs Manager for the City of Atlanta straddling the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and the Department of City Planning. In this role, she works on a Food Systems Team where she focuses on creating programs that divert food from the waste stream as part of the City’s Food Access … Read more

Global Recycling Council

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The Global Recycling Council (GRC) is a Technical Council of the California Resource Recovery Association. GRC was formed in 1997 to support the three goals of CRRA’s Agenda for the New Millennium: Zero Waste, End Welfare for Wasting, and Jobs from Design and Discards. Since its formation, members of this technical council have connected California … Read more

SWANA Gold Rush Chapter

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SWANA is an organization of professionals committed to advancing from solid waste management to resource management through their shared emphasis on education, safety, advocacy and research. In 1961, several local officials from southern California started a new association which was called the “Governmental Refuse Collection Disposal Association” (GRCDA). Their objectives were: Today the Northern California … Read more

Eve Richer

Eve leads the environmental strategy for Cisco’s supply chain sustainability team. In this role, she is focused on embedding circular economy principles across the value chain to achieve net zero goals and ensure Cisco products are designed, built, used, and reused sustainably. Previously, Eve worked at an NGO focused on combatting global deforestation. She also … Read more

Jamie Rhodes

James Rhodes (Jamie) is an attorney, organizer, and strategic consultant. Currently serving as a Policy Consultant for Upstream, he was formerly the Program Director from 2015 – 2018. In between roles with Upstream, he launched his own law practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Rhodes Consulting, that focused on environmental policy, working for the RI … Read more

Ripple Glass

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Ripple Glass was born out of a Kansas City brewery’s passion to run a zero-landfill business. Keeping beer bottles out of landfills was just the beginning, as Ripple helps more and more glass achieve a second life. Founded in 2009, Ripple Glass is a leader in passive collection and other creative collection solutions for post-consumer … Read more

Zabble Inc.

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Zabble helps organizations achieve zero waste by delivering real-time actionable insights using AI. Our patented SaaS platform, consisting of web and mobile apps, uses AI to analyze a bin’s contents from photos and invoices in real-time and recommends cost saving measures and engages stakeholders across all departments and functions to send less waste to landfills. … Read more