The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) board has elected two additional ex officio members to the board – Resa Dimino, New York, and Jen Heaton-Jones, Connecticut.
Resa Dimino is a managing principal with RRS, a sustainability and materials management consulting firm, and a partner at Signalfire Group, a subsidiary of RRS focused on supporting governments and businesses to navigate policy and regulation to move toward a circular economy. Dimino has over 30 years of experience in waste reduction, recycling, product stewardship and environmental economic development. She has held roles in the recycling industry, trade groups and public sector including WeRecycle, NAPCOR and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. As of late, she has managed and directed multiple recycling supply chain assessments, infrastructure gap analyses, EPR modeling and policy development projects. She recently led and participated in projects supporting the development of carpet EPR in New York, the study of PET thermoform recycling costs and material flows and mapped the infrastructure and material flow of plastics in the US and Canada.
Jen Heaton-Jones is the executive director of the Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority (HRRA), a regional, governmental solid waste management authority serving 14 municipalities in Western Connecticut. She has been with the HRRA since 2009. She is the current chair of the CT Product Stewardship Council, vice president of the CT Recyclers Coalition and president of the Northeast Chapter of NAHMMA.
Published in the July 2022 Edition
