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Kelly McBee

Circular Economy Manager

Kelly specializes in plastic pollution prevention and leads corporate research and engagement on improving circular economy operations, including limiting natural resource extraction and use and design for reuse, repair, and recycling. Kelly is the author of As You Sow’s 2024 Plastic Promises Scorecard: Are Corporations Following Through on Commitments to Act? ranking 225 of the world's largest companies on both ambition and action to tackle plastic packaging pollution. Additionally, Kelly manages As You Sow’s Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance, an international coalition of more than 50 institutional investors with more than $2.6 trillion in combined assets, working to engage publicly traded consumer goods companies on the threats posed by plastic pollution and waste. Prior to joining As You Sow, Kelly worked to pass circular economy policies for the state of California. Kelly received her BA from University of California Davis, where she studied global and environmental health.

Kelly’s Posts

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Hershey Annual General Meeting
As You Sow
Hershey Annual General Meeting
As You Sow

This proposal asks our Company to evaluate extending our responsibility for our packaging beyond the point of sale and through to the packaging’s end-of-life. Some opportunities to achieve this could include using less plastic, exploring reusable and package-free alternatives, and making sure that the disposable packaging we do use is always collected and recycled.

As You Sow
Why Nearly Half of Americans Lack Recycling
Kelly McBee
Why Nearly Half of Americans Lack Recycling
Kelly McBee

The solution to this recycling disparity is Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), whereby producer corporations that make the packaging (bottles, bags, wrap, etc.) finance the collection and recycling of their packaging at its end-of-life.

Kelly McBee