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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ruth Abbe is a Zero Waste practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in recycling and composting program and facility development and outreach and technical assistance. As president of Zero Waste USA, she is working with municipalities across the U.S. to develop the social and physical infrastructure to achieve Zero Waste. As co-chair of…
Richard V. Anthony is a volunteer board member who began his career in Public Administration in 1971 as a California State University Long Beach Recycling Center manager. He received an MS in Public Administration in 1974. Mr. Anthony has worked his entire career in environmental program management positions. He is an internationally recognized and published…
Neil Seldman is a Zero Waste advocate with extensive experience in the field. He co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and served as their Director of its Waste to Wealth Initiative for 48 years. He also co-founded the National Recycling Coalition, GRRN/Zero Waste USA, Zero Waste International Association and the Save the Albatross Coalition. Seldman…
Pål Mårtensson has been in waste management for 20 years and in Zero Waste movement for 15. The creator behind first ECO-Park in the world, Kretsloppsparken Alelyckan, founded by him and used as a model to public and private sectors worldwide. Pål is a member of the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) and Let’s Do…
Gary Liss has 47 years’ of experience in recycling, is a leading advocate of Zero Waste, and has worked on more Zero Waste Plans than anyone else in the U.S., including: Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Oakland, San Jose, Boston, Austin, and Fort Collins. He also has helped major businesses and colleges develop Zero Waste Plans….