With a strong background in industrial technology and digital transformation, Katrin Fricke has been named Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling. She succeeds Dr. Volker Rehrmann who retired from TOMRA earlier this year.
In a strategic move underscoring both continuity and transformation, German recycling systems specialist STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH has...
As CEO of Finnish emissions monitoring company Gasmet, Nenne Nordström is pursuing her dream of making a difference in the world ‒ both for...
Amy Fanagan never thought about working in the waste industry until by pure chance she landed a job there. Now she is Group Customer Care...
Silvia Schweiger-Fuchs does not like to dwell on the past. She likes to look to the future ‒ and find solutions. As CEO of sorting and...
It is often assumed that waste management is gender neutral. However, the reality is that gender inequalities persist in many aspects of...
The solid waste management (SWM) sector attracts well educated, highly motivated, impact driven and ambitious women, according to the...
Her curiosity and the urge to make an impact led Lauriane Avril to work for recycling company Renewi. For almost two years now the French...
As an environmental engineer, Rafaela Craizer has worked for big players as well as small companies. For her, working in the waste...
What happens to the bits of animals that we don’t eat? Jane Brindle knows the answer. The qualified microbiologist works in the rendering...
Entrepreneur, communications pro, Dale Carnegie trainer: Saretta Brown has a lot of credentials under her belt. Since 2018 she has been...
Katie Mallinson fell in love with the waste management sector during her placement year at university. She found her place in the industry...
Eva Kozma is one of only five women working in the garbage collection fleet in Vienna. Five days a week she drives her truck through the...
Karina Zile first studied mathematics, then obtained a PhD in computer science applied to genomics. Now she is setting out to change how...
Sian Cuffy-Young wants to change how we see waste. In her home country of Trinidad and Tobago, she educates people on how to best deal with...
How do we bring waste into the forefront of people’s minds so they realize the impacts of their waste generation? That was the question...
How to prevent contaminated steel from ending up in landfills – that was the big question for Nathalie van de Poel. The Dutch-born...
Tomra CEO Tove Andersen is the first woman to feature in our new series dedicated to women in waste management.
by ISWA
