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Peter Anderson

President, RecycleWorlds Consulting

Peter Anderson is president of RecycleWorlds Consulting, executive director of the Center for a Competitive Waste Industry, and project director for the multi-state Plastic Redesign Project.

He has been senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Department of Applied Economics on recycling systems, chairman of the National Recycling Coalition Policy Workgroup and its landfill subcommittee, and landfill consultant for the Grassroots Recycling Network.

He has been a keynote panel speaker at the Environmental Protection Agency’s national bioreactor conference, and a member of its peer review committee on landfill’s responsibility for greenhouse gases and climate change. He has also prepared a major independent evaluation of landfill financial assurance for the California Integrated Waste Management Board and another on landfill gases contribution greenhouse gases for the EPA.

Peter’s Recent activity

Who is Best Positioned to Carry Recycling Forward?
May 14, 2015
Each generation has its unique life experiences that lead it to almost inhabit a different universe than the one that follows, and all stand agog at the unfathomable peculiarities of the other...
A New (Zero) Waste Hierarchy
Apr 09, 2015
To many of us, the annual conferences that had long been held by the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) of old soon began to run together in our memories. But, for me, 19 years later, one will always stand out...
Come Together
Dec 18, 2014
Some years ago I had a sit-down with the then head of California’s Division of Recycling that, at the time, set the state’s redemption rates for the different kinds of bottle returns...
Guns, Germs & Peels
Nov 06, 2014
In 1997, UCLA environmental history professor, Jared Diamond, published his magisterial tome, Guns, Germs and Steel. His book plumed to the roots of how it was that some tribes at the end of the last ice age, but not...
Recyclers Need to Follow the Money
Oct 02, 2014
Last month, if you read this column, you journeyed back in time from the 1987 Mobro garbage barge to the 2002 Carlton trash convoys, which opened up a path, like a crack in the teacup, to zero waste.                  ...