Meet The Waste Innovators

Anton Rabie
CEO of Spin Master, a Canadian multinational children's toy and entertainment company.

Diana Young
Sr. Product Development at Spin Master, a Canadian multinational children's toy and entertainment company.

Liz Ricketts
Founder of the Or Foundation, a non-profit working to support communities in Ghana’s giant secondhand clothing hub of Kantamanto market and advocates for a justice-led circular economy.

Kelly Drennan
Executive Director of Fashion Takes Action, Canada’s premiere non-profit organization, established in 2007 to advance sustainability, ethics and circularity in the entire fashion system.

Dr. Chelsea Rochman
Assistant Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto.

Clayton Miller
VP Recycling at Quantum Lifecycle, an IT asset disposition (ITAD) company and an end-of-life electronics recycler.

James Emery
Prototype Vehicle Tech at Riversimple, a UK-based car manufacturer of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles.

Hugo Spowers
Chief Engineer and Founder of Riversimple, a UK-based car manufacturer of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles.

Martin Montague
Founder of ClearWaste, a website used to combat “fly tipping”, the activity of illegally leaving waste or unwanted objects next to a road, in a field, or in a river.

Josh Domingues
Founder & CEO of Flashfood, an app that connects the grocer to the customer and allows you to find and purchase grocery items that are nearing their best before dates at a discounted rate.

Jonathan Caroll
Senior VP of Real Canadian Superstores.

Jacquie
Volunteer at Repair Cafe Toronto, a grassroots, volunteer group that organizes events where neighbours help neighbours learn how to repair.

Lindsay Lorusso
CEO and Co-founder of Nudnik, a Toronto-based company that sells Premium upcycled eco-kidswear.
Meet the Waste Experts

Carl Lorusso
President of Wasteco, a waste management company in Toronto, Ontario.

Don McGorman
Organizer at Clean North, a registered charitable environmental awareness group in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Mike Blanchard
Manager of Waste Management in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Scott Smith
Equipment Operator in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Cindy Ross
Secretary at Sault Ste. Marie Humane Society, an animal welfare organization.

Laurie Parsons
Co-Investigator at Blood Bricks Report, which researches the modern slavery-climate change nexus in the Cambodian construction industry.

Selva Rasaiah
Operator of EcoSenshi, a community-focused environmental organization that is committed to conducting investigations, evaluations, reports and educating the public to ensure the protection of our health and the environment.

Joel Theriault
Founder of StopTheSpray, a volunteer based group focused on stopping the non-essential use of chemical herbicide defoliants within Ontario's public forests by Ontario's forestry industry.

David McRaney
American Journalist, Author, and Podcaster. Created the blog/book/podcast You Are Not So Smart in 2009. His second book, You Are Now Less Dumb was released in 2013. His third and latest book, How Minds Changed was released in 2022.
Families participating in the Garbage Challenge

The Mason Family - Nuclear Family in Suburban Home
