Heidi is the Executive Director of the National Stewardship Action Council (NSAC), a non-profit she founded in 2015 to advocate for a circular economy. She previously had been the founding director of the highly successful California Product Stewardship Council, and prior to that advisor to the Chair of the California Waste Management Agency now called CalRecycle. Heidi has been a leader in the solid waste industry for over 30 years based in California, focused on tangible solutions to advance a circular economy. She is an internationally recognized thought leader and advocate for producer responsibility who has spoken around the world. Heidi has been frequently published and interviewed on National Public Radio and CBS Nightly News, and quoted in Time Magazine, the Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2020, Heidi was appointed by the California EPA to the Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling and was elected the Commission Chair. The Commission submitted a report to the California legislature June of 2021 with 30 policy recommendations to improve recycling and apply to the entire U.S and maybe beyond. Additionally, she serves on the California Treasurer’s Green Bond Market Development Committee and the California Department of Consumer Affair’s Bureau of Household Goods and Services (BHGS) Advisory Council, and the Advisory Board for the Solid Waste Association of North America representing Materials Recovery. In per private life, she is an elected official representing 170K Sacramentan’s on the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Board, a public power utility that has a plan to achieve zero carbon emission by 2030 to lead the nation off fossil fuel powered electricity. She and her husband Brad have three dogs and spend their free time at their vacation home at Lake Tahoe.
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