Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Debbie leads the Sustainable Products, Circularity and Chemistry team. She has a strong track record in project management, business development and consultancy and is recognised for her ability to build and manage multi-stakeholder teams and her capability to deliver complex, collaborative and sensitive projects. She has an extensive understanding of the drivers and challenges of sustainable materials management having worked in a local authority, at a leading producer responsibility compliance organisation and over 15 years in consultancy.

Debbie has managed projects in manufacturing, retail, waste management and the public sector, delivering waste prevention activities, increasing reuse, improving waste collections and operations, driving behavior change and initiating product stewardship (ERP+) programs. She has delivered projects which focus on specific materials, such as food, packaging, textiles and WEEE; as well as projects which have a communications-based or behavior change methodology.

Since 2017 Debbie has been supporting businesses, NGOs and policy makers to address the single use plastic agenda for sustainability. She has overseen baseline development, benchmarking and goal setting exercises, strategy and action plan creation and materials substitution options assessments and R&D projects in the packaging and materials supply chains as well as specific support to the waste and reprocessing sectors to support circular economy.

Debbie is a qualified facilitator and is well known for her stakeholder engagement and consensus building capabilities.

Beth has over 17 years experience in the resource management sector and is an accomplished project manager with a proven ability to run multi-disciplinary teams and politically sensitive projects to deliver high quality outcomes in line with clients’ needs.

Beth has deep practical knowledge and experience of downstream recycling, which has been built up during ten years working with local authorities and waste contractors on all aspects of their recycling services. She has provided clients support with designing and implementing new recycling collection services, developing and running citizen communication and behaviour changes programmes and review service performance data.

Beth now applies this knowledge of the downstream recycling supply chain to support clients on all aspects of sustainable packaging, with a particular focus on plastics. Beth is also one of our lead waste material flow and economic modellers. She builds models that represent complex scenarios (e.g. Deposit Return Schemes or national infrastructure options) that enable clients to make strategic business decisions or respond to pending policy changes.

Beth works with a wide range of clients including FMCG brands, trade bodies, pharmaceuticals, retailers, waste collection contractors and local government.

Alan leads Anthesis’ Analytics Practice for the UK region. He has 10 years of experience in developing corporate- and product-level GHG footprints, covering a wide range of sectors, products, and services. He also has extensive experience working with enterprise software partners to deliver cutting-edge, web-based technology solutions for the analysis and visualisation of sustainability data.

Alan holds a Ph.D. in product lifecycle accounting from the University of Nottingham and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the same institution.

Stephanie is an experienced project and people manager with over 12 years’ international experience in the circular economy, waste management and resource efficiency including developing and optimising packaging for the FMCG sector.

At Kraft Foods and Mondelez she worked with cross functional teams to implement packaging solutions to deliver productivity, quality improvement and growth. She also worked at WRAP and in Consultancy where she supported brand owners and retailers in reducing the carbon impact of their packaged products.

She has a strong track record in managing and delivering multiple projects simultaneously, on time and to budget. Projects she has delivered included waste systems development and optimisation, design for recyclability, product and packaging waste prevention, creation of technical guidance documents and development of resource-efficient tools.

Andrew has over 17 years of experience helping organizations develop and enhance their corporate sustainability and environmental programs. Mainly working with Global 500 clients in the technology, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, he helps identify, communicate and implement sustainability programs and projects that are practical and deliver tangible commercial outcomes.

Andrew has worked in the UK and the US, leading significant global key client relationships and managing multi-disciplinary project teams that include industry thought leaders, technical specialists and technology partners.

Andrew recently helped develop methodologies and roadmaps for the Information and Communication Technology sector’s transition to a low carbon economy.

Alexandre is currently in charge of the management of Anthesis France activities covering all sectors of Anthesis, from Advisory + Communications, Energy, Waste + Circular Economy to Analytics, Software + Systems. He advises public and private French organisations in the best way to innovate in disruptive solutions increasing their resilience while moving further into the implementation of regenerative design.

Alexandre previously worked at Cisco Systems in telecommunications and IT services cover the Middle East, Africa and Europe. He led the Cisco partner programme with a focus on service provider solutions. When Cisco first funded The Elle MacArthur Foundation, he took the decision to take part of the circular economy movement and has advised numerous management teams in the design of their circular vision, strategy and missions, then with his company Wizeimpact. He has also measured programme or project outcomes by assessing not only their global positive or negative impact, but estimated its intrinsic tangible as well as intangible value. This has helped companies fine tuning their programme designs.

Alexandre has 10 years of experience in related sustainability fields, namely the circular economy where he is a recognised expert, the social impact assessment and social innovation where he is an accredited Social Return on Investment (SROI) practitioner, sustainability reporting when he then was an official Global Reporting Initiative trainer. Alexandre holds a Master in Business Administration from Hult Boston, MA, USA.