After 10 years in #circularity, I have compiled a list featuring 100 people and organizations, who I think you should follow. The list is being released across 25 posts until Christmas and acts as a story-based #zerowaste alternative to an advent calendar.

In this twenty-second post, I am focusing on people and organizations pushing for circularity in the use of #electronics and energy technologies.

85) Bas van Abel is the founder of Fairphone. His goal is to design and produce electronic devices that last longer – and thereby reduce negative impacts on people and the planet. In line with this, Fairphone works on creating smartphones and headphones that are durable, modular, and easily reparable with readily available spare parts. The social enterprise also works towards sourcing minerals that are conflict-free and producing devices under better working conditions. Fairphone’s mission is to lead by example and inspire a larger market shift over to ethical and sustainable products.

86) Julie-Ann Adams is the secretary general of the EBRA (European Battery Recycling Association) and the CEO of both EERA - WEEE recyclers and the European Electronics Recyclers Association. Julie-Ann has over two decades of experience in the European e-waste and batteries waste management sector. Throughout her career, she has played a key role in the development and implementation of both regulations and producer responsibility-led principles for e-waste, battery, and hazardous waste management in the EU.

87) Pascal Leroy is the director general of the WEEE Forum. The association represents over fifty producer responsibility organizations globally. It works to advance circularity, extended producer responsibility, and effective e-waste management policies. Pascal has spent over 20 years working on a variety of e-waste programs, policies, and projects. Amongst others, he led the WEEELABEX project, which created the world’s first set of harmonized e-waste standards, and later also set up the WEEELABEX Organisation.

88) Verena Radulovic is the vice president of business engagement at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She is also a board member of the Global Electronics Council and SERI. In the past, Verena worked as a product lead on consumer electronics at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and – as a “climate storyteller” – she concurrently also created a series of written and visual stories to increase awareness about how e-waste is managed and mitigated by the informal sector. Verena’s current work centers around helping businesses and communities to transition over to cleaner energy practices. In this context, she works with stakeholders on supply chains, climate-related financial risk disclosures, and climate mitigation and resilience.

🔔 Stay tuned to to see the whole list of 100 people and organizations to follow unfold on LinkedIn, our blog, and our app.