Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has named Jacy Bolden as the first full-time director of the California Carpet Stewardship Program.
Bolden comes to CARE with extensive experience in product stewardship, waste and environmental policy as the founder of the consulting firm The JBC Groups. Her work includes corporate sales, solid waste systems, recycling and composting operations and non-profit management, as well as municipal and local government program operations and policy development. In 2004, she was named Recycler of the Year by the California Resource Recovery Association.
In collaboration with Peoples and the CARE team, Bolden will be responsible for the management and administration of all aspects of the Program, including delivering services to its target audiences to increase reuse, recycling and diversion of post-consumer carpet discards in California.
Published in the January 2018 Edition.