Greg Sawtell

Greg Sawtell is the Zero Waste Just Transition Director with the South Baltimore Community Land Trust. He has worked on environmental justice campaigns since 2012 in Baltimore beginning with the successful effort to stop the nation’s largest trash incineration from being built less than a mile from schools in South Baltimore. Greg coordinated the development … Read more

Neil Seldman

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 … Read more

Julie Sands Tyne

Julie Sands Tyne has been with the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department for about 18 years and is a Supervising Recycling Specialist. Before ESD, she worked in environmental consulting on CEQA projects and Superfund sites, as well as for an English language newspaper in Paris, France. She currently oversees the commercial sector and … Read more

Lin King

Lin managed the R4 Recycling Program at UC Davis for fifteen years and Cal Zero Waste at UC Berkeley for the past nine years. UC Berkeley has won the Pac-12 Road to Zero Waste Basketball competition four consecutive times and has earned a USGBC TRUE Zero Waste platinum certification for Haas Business School’s Chou Hall. … Read more

Kate O’Neill

Kate O’Neill is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. She is known for her work on global environmental politics and governance and the global political economy of waste. Her work has been featured … Read more

Kira Stoll

Kira Stoll is the Chief Sustainability & Carbon Solutions Officer for the University of California, Berkeley. Her work involves strategic advising with leadership to institutionalize sustainable practices into campus administration and operations; developing cutting-edge carbon reduction, renewable energy, waste and water use reduction, and green building initiatives; and, developing long- and short-range sustainability plans and … Read more

Maggie Clarke, Ph.D.

Maggie Clarke, Ph.D. is a zero waste consultant at Maggie Clarke Environmental, has been an educator and researcher in environmental science and advocate for zero waste practices for 30 years, and a professional in solid waste management for over 35 years. Maggie is chair of the National Recycling Coalition’s Committee to advance the NRC clearinghouse … Read more

Enzo Favoino

Enzo Favoino is with Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, a not-for-profit Research Centre based in Northern Italy. He and his team have long been involved across Europe in scientific and technical issues related to optimisation of schemes for separate collection, definition and implementation of Zero Waste programmes, process management in composting and anaerobic digestion … Read more

Cecilia Allen

Cecilia Allen is the Global Projects Advisor for GAIA, focused on strengthening the work on zero waste through global initiatives. She re-joined GAIA in 2017, and previously served as GAIA’s Regional Coordinator for Latin America and The Caribbean for nine years. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now based in Cordoba, Cecilia is a Sociologist … Read more

Bob Gedert

Bob Gedert

Bob Gedert is the President of the National Recycling Coalition. In 2019, he was awarded the Lifetime Recycling Achievement Award from the National Recycling Coalition. Bob is a Cincinnati-based consultant with 40+ years of experience in guiding communities toward sustainable materials management through a systems approach, bridging recycling best practices and sustainability toward local circular … Read more