Elisa Seltzer joined RRS in 2019 as a senior consultant after a long and successful career as a public works director for Emmet County, MI. She is a visionary and strategic leader experienced in project management and recycling, composting, and solid waste policy and program development. Her 30 years of experience in the public sector … Read more
David Krueger has over 30 years of experience in the solid waste and recycling industry. He has worked for local governments, consulting firms, a private transfer station, and a college recycling program. For the past 13 years David has managed the solid waste and recycling programs for the City of San Ramon, California, which recently … Read more
Kelley Dennings is a campaigner with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. Prior to the Center, she worked as a local government recycling coordinator, and for NC’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Keep America Beautiful and the American Forest Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in natural resources from N.C. State and a master’s … Read more
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 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 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 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 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 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. 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