Joachim Quoden: studied law at the “Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität” in Bonn between 1987 and 1992 and served his legal internship in Bonn and Cologne from 1993 until 1995. In between these placements, he spent 4 months within the German Federal Ministry of Environment where he was working on packaging issues including the German Packaging Ordinance. From February 1993 until June 2006 Mr Quoden worked for Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) in various capacities. From January 2001, he served as Head of International Affairs of DSD and was vested with general commercial power of representation in 2003. In January 2001 he also became Secretary General of PRO EUROPE, the umbrella organisation of 35 packaging recovery organisations seated in 33 European countries and in Canada and Israel. Between April 2005 and February 2013, he was appointed as managing director of this organisation. Since April 2013 he is appointed as managing director of EXPRA – Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance – Inspiring Packaging Recycling, a new alliance of packaging recovery organisations currently from more than 17 countries.
Besides this, he is working since June 1995 as independent German Lawyer specialized on international extended producer responsibility legislation. Since October 2013 he is appointed as chairperson of the legal working group of ISWA; he was also an expert of the ISO global standardisation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and Environment that has developed between 2009 and 2012 global standards on packaging optimisation, recycling, reuse and energy recovery.
He is a member of the German lawyers association
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the Product Stewardship Institute in Boston, US [
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the Global Product Stewardship Council [
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the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) [
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which is an association to support the youth work of the professional basketball team of TELEKOM BASKETS BONN.
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Sarah O’Carroll: completed her degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town in 2010, Sarah worked as an Engineering and Built Environment Industry Analyst at Frost and Sullivan, a global management consulting company. Sarah joined GreenCape in 2013 as a Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP) facilitator where she subsequently took over as programme manager in 2014. With the help of her team, Sarah is championing Industrial Symbioses as a key tool in developing a circular economy within the manufacturing sector of the Western Cape and beyond. By facilitating the exchange of unused resources between companies, the programme assists turning waste streams into secondary materials and subsequently returning them into the economy, rather than being lost to landfill. Since 2015, she has been instrumental in co-ordinate activities with other regional facilitated industrial symbiosis programmes in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Further to this, Sarah’s involvement at GreenCape has extended into Enterprise Development, where she has developed a programme with South African Renewable Energy Business Incubator (SAREBI) to develop SMMEs using business opportunities identified by WISP.
Her process knowledge, and understanding of the close-loop paradigm has resulted in Sarah being a leading representative for GreenCape (a founding member) at the Africa Circular Economy Network (ACEN). ACEN is an interest group of various experts looking at reinventing inclusive growth in Africa, using the concepts and principles of the Circular Economy.
Dr Phillip Notten: is a principal consultant at The Green House, has an undergraduate and PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Since completing her PhD in 2001 Phillipa has worked as a consultant in the USA, Denmark and South Africa. During this time she contributed to a number of industry, EU- and UNEP-funded research projects in the broad areas of process technology assessment, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology development and environmental decision-making.
Phillipa is an expert LCA practitioner with over 15 years of experience, primarily relating to life cycle assessment and product carbon footprinting in the food, retail, and consumer good sectors, and in the primary industries (mining and power generation). Phillipa is an experienced peer reviewer, having conducted critical reviews of LCA studies conducted by or on behalf of leading global companies.
Her past research work has centred on developing LCA methodology, notably the development of a rigorous approach to the quantification of uncertainty in the information needed to support LCA. Her current academic interests include the development and promotion of life cycle management, and she is instrumental in an initiative to set up a South African Life Cycle Centre and a national life cycle inventory database, as well as in the development of life cycle impact assessment indicators relevant to South Africa (water and biodiversity).
Phillipa is LCA subject editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, a member of the ecoinvent International Advisory Council, a subject editor (coal) of the ecoinvent database, and a member of the SETAC LCA Global Coordinating Group. Phillipa takes an active role in the promotion and development of LCA, notably through membership activities of the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE), the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), the African LCA Network, and UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, as well as through participation in international workshops and conferences.