Stephanie Kersten-Johnston, Director of Innovation @ The Recycling Partnership

Recycler Secrets was able to sit down Stephanie before she gave the keynote address at the 2019 Michigan Recycling Coalition Conference in May to talk about the Circular Economy, Recycling in the United States and how stay focused in a turbulent recycling world in light of global trends.

Steph is originally from the United Kingdom, and before moving to the United States, she forged a 10-year career in the corporate world in London, working with a number of global organizations on their sustainability strategies and communications processes. Since moving to the U.S. in 2015, Steph focused her efforts more specifically on the topic of Circular Economy and interpreting complex sustainability challenges through this lens.

Before joining the Partnership, Steph was Director of Sustainable Business at HEINEKEN USA, where she supported the company’s implementation of the global “Brewing a Better World” framework for the brewer’s U.S. operations. Steph is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York, where she teaches a graduate class focused on Circular Economy.

She lives in trendy Brooklyn, NY, but you’ll just as often find her and her husband exploring the United States on road bikes!

Email: skerstenjohnston@recyclingpartnership.org

Organization: The Recycling Partnership

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephiejohnno/

Columbia University: https://www.sustainability.ei.columbia.edu/faculty

Books Referenced: The Future of Packaging: From Linear to Circular , by Tom Szaky

2019 Michigan Recycling Coalition Conference, Looking Back To Move Forward