Anne Scheinberg

International Solid Waste Association, Netherlands

Title: Measuring Circular Economy in Cities

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Biography

Anne Scheinberg has a lifelong commitment to inclusive recycling, sustainable materials cycles and healthy cities. She is one of the recycling pioneers who invented municipal recycling in the North American in the 1980s, and since 2000 has focused on Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) in more than 40 countries in all parts of the world. She works with and for informal recyclers in emerging economies - especially in South Eastern Europe - so that their good work is recognised and appreciated by local and national authorities. 

Based in the Netherlands, Dr. Scheinberg splits her time between process facilitation and renewal in governance, research on waste prevention, and on improving recycling rates. She chairs the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimization and leads the Circular and Low Carbon Cities (CALC) project, working on metrics for waste prevention and developing indicators for cities to score and improve circularity and decrease CO2 emissions. 

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