Silo Solving Podcast S1 Episode 5

TRUE: Zero Waste and Waste Management

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Published: 2 February 2023

In this episode’s guest pairing, the Director of Client Solutions for TRUE certification, the first zero waste certification program dedicated to measuring, improving and recognizing zero waste performance (Celeste McMickle) - AND - author of Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities and assistant professor of urban policy and planning (Lily Baum Pollans) officially meet for the first time to converse with the Silo Solving podcast host (Danelle Marqui Brown), on the topic of “TRUE: Zero Waste & Waste Management.”


EPISODE’S GUESTS

Celeste McMickle is the Director of Client Solutions for TRUE certification with the USGBC. She helps support client understanding of the TRUE rating system and promote its effectiveness to the wider community. TRUE certification aims to support facilities and businesses in achieving their zero waste goals by providing a clear path to certification using a points-based rating system and educational tools such as the TRUE Advisor program. Celeste is trained as an architect and has been working in the field of sustainability since 2006. She is currently serving in her second term as the vice-chair of the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board and is a certified Master Composter and Permaculture Designer. Celeste holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Sustainable Design from the San Francisco Institute of Architecture.

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Lily Baum Pollans is the author of Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities (2021) and assistant professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College in New York. A main thread of her work examines institutional and infrastructural transformation of solid waste systems in U.S. cities and evaluates the ability of municipalities to influence consumption. A second set of ongoing projects examines urban food systems and food waste, and explores the consequences—technological, social, economic and ecological—of ongoing change in urban food provisioning systems.

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HOST
Danelle Marqui Brown

PRODUCED BY
By Mnemosyne