As the Strategic Initiatives Manager at Eastman, Holli Alexander translates the complexity of sustainability into action. She has worked closely within the plastic recycling industry for the last decade supporting collaborative system change. Holli represents Eastman in a variety of external organizations including the US Plastics Pact, the Recycling Partnership, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, and the Association of Plastic Recyclers. She currently serves as an officer for the PLASTICS Industry Association and helped found their Advanced Recycling Committee. She launched the ANSI US Technical Advisory Group for the ISO committee on Chain of Custody and co-authored a chapter on mass balance in Current Topics in the Circular Economy of Polymers which was published by the American Chemistry Society in 2021.
Tim Buwalda is a Principal at Circular Matters, a consulting firm dedicated to bringing about the circular economy. We work with companies, government entities, and industry organizations to make real progress toward sustainability goals. Tim has over 25 years experience in waste reduction and materials recovery, specializing in policy approaches, infrastructure planning and analysis, and recovered materials processing technologies. Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, with a specialization in plastics.
Shannon Crawford is the director of recycling and environmental policy at WM, where she works with the government affairs team to coordinate responses to recycling legislation, regulations, and policy impacting WM operations. Previously, she worked as the director of state government affairs at the Plastics Industry Association, overseeing the association’s response to extended producer responsibility and recycled content legislation. Crawford started her career at SWANA, where she advanced to the position of manager of government relations.