Jeremy Drake

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 Rice Waddle

Amanda Rice Waddle

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

Adoma Addo

Adoma is an intern with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Population and Sustainability Program as well as a Senior at Yale University studying Environmental Science and Global Health. With a keen interest in global sustainability, Adoma’s research focuses on the nexus between environmental, social, and economic justice, investigating how current systems of production and waste … Read more

Upstream

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Upstream was founded in 2003 as a public-interest, non-profit organization by a group of Zero Waste activists in the US and Canada. While working together in the 1990s, these leaders felt too many environmental groups were only focused on “downstream” or “end of pipe” solutions like recycling and composting. But they knew we can’t recycle … Read more

SCS Engineers

SCS Engineers’ primary practice, representing the majority of our experience and diversification, is waste management. This includes environmental and resource economics, monitoring and assessment, and policy and management. SCS Engineers is waste management engineering proud to be one of the nation’s top environmental consulting and construction firms, delivering sustainable solutions that balance today’s financial, environmental, … Read more

Community Bikes

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A Sonoma County, California community-based bike upcycling program that makes fossil fuel-free transport accessible to all. In March 2022, Transition US and Community Bikes will be offering a four-part series on starting a reuse and repair training program like this in your community. Community Bikes is a project of Zero Waste Action – Sonoma County. … Read more

Recyclist

Recyclist creates cloud-based solutions that make solid waste program management easy. The triple-bottom-line company designs software to empower citizens, government and business with the information they need to move our world toward a more sustainable future. Recyclist’s Software as a Service products — used by cities, counties, nonprofits and waste haulers — provide new visibility … Read more

Ruth Abbe

Ruth Abbe

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 … Read more

Payzone Systems

PayZone

Payzone Systems rated A+ by BBB is a national leader in credit card and ACH processing and is partnered with the National Recycling Coalition to offer it’s members, specialized programs including 7 days a week funding. Payzone provides businesses with the best in credit card processing services by leveraging the world’s most advanced technologies for … Read more