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Dr. Anne Scheinberg has been active as a recycling and sustainable waste management specialist and action researcher for more than 35 years, 15 of those at WASTE, Advisers on urban environment and development, in Gouda, the Netherlands. An international consultant, she specialises on recycling and solid waste in emerging economies. As an action researcher, she facilitates processes and works in methodology development in participatory environmental waste management and recycling planning.
She currently is focusing on improving both performance and inclusivity in packaging, e-waste, and re-use systems the “new EU” and pre-accession countries. Between 1982 and 1988, her firm, Recourse Systems, was responsible for pioneering the techniques of public participation and stakeholder mobilisation in the Northeastern USA, and she had her team produced a third of all of the first generation of recycling and integrated waste management plans for cities, counties, and states in the USA.
Scheinberg is recognised in the global community of practice for being at the forefront of methodological approaches to bringing stakeholders together, improving data management, baseline analysis, benchmarking, in inventing, piloting, and field-testing metrics, techniques, and institutional strategies for better waste management and inclusive recycling. She has applied these methodologies in user-pays systems, and participatory planning to the unique circumstances of middle-income countries. She serves as a a resource to members of the global recyclers movement and contributes to formulation of plans and approaches to integrate informal recyclers into their host municipal waste management systems, and support professionalisation and better recycling . She has taught colleagues on six continents how to make recycling projections and her “little planning manual” – freely available -- is in use in many countries. Between 2014 and 2016 Scheinberg and Ir. Paddy Noë of Jewel co-designed the Global Recycling Information Platform (GRIP), a real-time data registration and benchmarking platform for tracking materials movements in the service and value chains, which the Colombian government is using for data management (under the name ONRI).
Scheinberg’s regional strengths are the Balkans and the New EU, and emerging economies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She has won the publications prize of the International Association twice, once in 2010 with the UN-Habitat publication Solid Waste Management in the World’s Cities, and in 2016 with Valuing Informal Integration, Inclusive Recycling in North Africa and the Middle East.
Dr. Scheinberg works in five languages, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Bulgarian, with working knowledge of other South Slavic and Romance languages. She lives in Zwolle, the Netherlands with her husband, J.C.J. “Hans” Paalvast, with whom she co-founded the sustainability enterprise, Springloop Cooperatie U.A. I 2011.
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