Circular Arizona and the Closed Loop Partners present this virtual connection! This free webinar will explore the Composting Consortium's Municipal Blueprint. Co-authored with the nonprofit Eco-Cycle, the Blueprint is an essential guide for municipalities, counties, and cities seeking to develop food scrap collection programs and work with composters to meet zero waste and climate goals.
You'll also learn about the Consortium's new, free-to-access platforms, which were launched alongside the release of the Blueprint. Municipalities and composters of all sizes and stages of development are invited to connect with the Consortium to explore ways the network can help them achieve their goals of diverting food waste from landfills.
Municipal Partnership Platform: This platform is for city officials focused on sustainability, zero waste and waste management. It connects officials with leaders nationwide to share and discuss best practices for starting and expanding organics collection and infrastructure programs.
Composter Innovator Program: This Program brings full-scale composters together to play an active role in shaping the industry's future on topics like contamination, policy, financing, and scaling food waste composting infrastructure.
Composters and municipalities will find the content most relevant, though all stakeholders across the composting, compostable packaging, and circularity industries are welcome to attend.
Meet Caroline
Caroline Barry is the Program Manager of the Composting Consortium, an initiative of Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy. The Composting Consortium brings together leading voices across the composting and compostable packaging ecosystem–from the world's leading brands to best-in-class composters running the operations on the ground. Through in-market tests, deep research and industry-wide collaboration, they are laying the groundwork for a more robust, resilient composting system to keep organics and compostable packaging in circulation.
Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Caroline was a consultant for an international consumer goods company, where she oversaw sustainable packaging and circularity strategy, implementation, and execution. During that time, her work was recognized by B Lab as one of two key best practices during the company’s B Corp recertification. She is also the co-creator of the Packaging Innovation Portal; the first website of its kind that supports consumer goods companies, manufacturers, and retailers in the transition away from petroleum-based packaging materials to compostable, renewable, and circular packaging solutions.
Caroline received her B.A. in Communications from Loyola University Maryland and her Master’s in Environmental Sustainability with a specialization in sustainable food systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder.