Michael Alexander Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Ma, Us

Brattleboro, Vermont, Us

Deliver consulting services to variety of clients on sustainability and improving waste reduction and recycling programs in commercial, institutional and residential settings.Develop new products, and devise market strategies and sales forecasts for Emerge Knowledge Design, developer of Re-TRAC, premier on-line data management tool for benchmarking recycling program performance and quantifying GHG reductions.Coordinated Corporate Social Responsibility initiative for National Recycling Coalition and Coca-Cola to implement national grant program to distribute recycling bins throughout US. Devised new sustainability and solid waste management roadmap for State of Florida, including calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of various policy options and recycling and solid waste scenarios.Authored key chapters for Solid Waste Association of North America’s (SWANA) new professional recycling manager certification course curriculum, including chapter on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing.

Built relationships and developed projects with recycling supply-chain players, including leading brand-owners, consumer product companies, trade associations, recycling industry and government agencies.Designed and managed Corporate Social Responsibility program for Dell to increase computer recycling throughout North America. Served as senior advisor to Executive Director on recycling and sustainability policy issues.Designed NRC’s Environmental Benefits Calculator, enabling businesses and consumers to measure the impact of their recycling efforts on GHG emissions and energy use.Collaborated on launch of new consumer-based website to promote recycling to millions of Americans and to help them quantify recycling’s environmental benefits.Secured funding for first national campaign to rebrand recycling, awarded by U.S. EPA.Managed professional and administrative staff and contractors in a variety of projects and tasks.Crafted annual organizational work plan.Directed NRC’s Policy Workgroup position on federal policies, including product stewardship, disposal technologies, and electronics recycling.Quoted in many regional and national publications, including Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, and regularly quoted in national solid waste journals.

Assist recycling businesses in obtaining financing through a variety of means, including organizing recycling investment forums to link recycling enterprises with investors.Organized first national conference on food residuals management in Burlington, Vermont in 2000.Secured funding and managed numerous projects for US Environmental Protection Agency and President Clinton’s Climate Change Action Plan. For each project, devise project budget, allocated funding, managed support staff and consultants, and facilitated communication among key stakeholder groups.Analyzed recycling markets to assess impacts of various government policies and private sector actions on recycling program economics.Facilitated NERC conferences and meetings.Authored numerous market reports on key trends affecting recycling and supply/demand and price projections

Conducted research for a series of office reports, including: data collection of regional, national and international recycling market trends; technical and economic issues; legal/regulatory analysis.