Day 2 - National Stewardship Action Council Update - Heidi Sanborn
Speakers
Heidi Sanborn, National Stewardship Action Council
Title
Founder and Executive Director
Speaker Abstract
Heidi Sanborn will be a part of our keynote, to discuss what is happening at the California Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling. Ms. Sanborn is the Founder of the National Stewardship Action Council and has served as its Executive Director since 2015. She is also the founding Director of the California Product Stewardship Council where she has served for 12 years. These nonprofits are dedicated to reducing waste, increasing recycling and advocating for a circular economy. She was appointed by State Treasurer Fiona Ma to the Green Bond Market Development Committee in 2019 tasked with efficiently raising billions of dollars in new and affordable capital to build climate-friendly infrastructure. She also was appointed by CalEPA to serve on the Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling in June of 2020 and was elected Chair. The voluntary Commission submitted 34 policy recommendations to the California Legislature, with full consensus votes in its first 18 months, resulting in numerous bills passing in 2021 that were groundbreaking for the field.