Patti Toews
Patti Toews works as APTIM’s Local and State Government Sustainability Waste Management Solutions provider, focusing on new and existing regulatory challenges and issues.
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Jessica Shrout
Jessica Shrout owns Circle Three Branding – a marketing agency dedicated to the waste and recycling industry. Her passion grew from frustration that no outside agency seemed to understand the needs of the waste world – and so it became a mission to provide quality marketing services from someone who understands what you’re talking about….
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Jessica Jane Robinson
Jessica Jane Robinson has been a zero-waste advocate and environmental leader in the Bay Area for over a decade and currently serves as President of the Northern California Recycling Association. She used her platform as Miss Alameda, a crown she held from 2010-2011, to showcase sustainability and climate issues by creating a superhero called “Recycle…
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Bruce Buchan
Bruce is a driver and promoter of sustainability change and believes that Culture, Communication, and Collection are the 3 key factors for achieving zero waste. This redefined concept – CleanRiver’s 3C process – has been adopted by organizations such as Google, Tesla, Facebook, and J.P. Morgan Chase. Bruce shares his 33 years of industry experience…
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Michael Savarie
Michael Savarie is the Sustainability Program Manager for Circularity and Textiles at UL Solutions, where he manages the Environmental Claim Validation (ECV) and the Textile Exchange programs. Michael has a background in sustainability in the apparel and textile industry, helping to launch an apparel and material innovation brand successfully and later developing and leading the…
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Neil Seldman
Neil Seldman, Ph.D., is a Zero Waste advocate with extensive experience in the field. He co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and was Director of its Waste to Wealth Initiative for 48 years. He also co-founded the National Recycling Coalition, ZW USA, Zero Waste International Association, and the Save the Albatross Coalition. Seldman is known…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
