Biography

Catherine Goodall is a principal at RRS with over 18 years of packaging sustainability and recovery experience. She has consulted for trade associations, brand owners, packaging converters and packaging supply chains to develop and implement sustainability metrics, policies, and platforms to drive improvements in the environmental performance and recoverability of their products. Catherine also has in depth knowledge of extended producer responsibility laws in Europe and other regions, having tracked policy developments and assisted companies with EPR compliance.

Recent Team Projects

  • Foodservice Packaging Institute: RRS conducts research and analysis, supports membership growth, and develops communications and outreach to advance the recovery of foodservice packaging materials.
  • St. Louis Composting: RRS prepared a grant application for funding to purchase a depackager, enabling the client to expand the materials accepted at its compost site.
  • National CPG Manufacturer: RRS conducted a TruCycle recyclability assessment including a MRF material flow study on the client’s product packaging.

Affiliations/Memberships

  • Sustainable Packaging Coalition Industry Leadership Committee on Foodservice Packaging

Topical Expertise

  • Sustainable Packaging & Recovery
  • Collaborations/Partnerships in Recovery
  • Extended Producer Responsibility
  • Trade Associations

Recent Speaking Engagements/Publications

  • Plastic Recycling Update (May 2016): Critical Mass – Polystyrene Foam Recycling, co-author Marissa Segundo
  • WasteExpo (June 2015): Optimizing Food Scrap Diversion and Organics Collection, Opportunities for Waste Haulers (moderator)
  • WasteExpo (June 2015): Compostable Bags & Residential Food Waste Recovery
  • Babson Energy & Environmental Conference (Mar 2012): Food Packaging – Cost vs. the Environment Panel
  • Sustainability in Packaging Conference (Mar 2012): The Future 500 Approach to EPR

Education/Certifications

  • Master of Business Administration, Babson College
  • Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and German Studies, Brown University
  • Courses in Environmental Management, Statistics, German Literature, History, and Computer Programming, Technical University Berlin

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Thought Leadership

  • Recycling Paper Cups

    Recycling Paper Cups RRS consultants Marissa Segundo and Catherine Goodall write about recycling paper cups in their latest article Promising Pathways as seen in the March edition of Resource Recycling magazine. Here’s a snippet: Paper cups symbolize a number of elements of modern culture – our on-the-go mentality, our need for convenience, our love of caffeine – but […]

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  • Intelligent Additions

    Reprinted/shared with permission from Resource Recycling Inc. magazine December 2017 issue. Intelligent Additions Several communities have recently expanded acceptance of foodservice packaging in curbside recycling. In each case, the move came after significant engagement with end markets and local MRFs to ensure downstream viability. RRS’ Marissa Segundo and Catherine Goodall walk you through the efforts […]

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  • Polystyrene Foam Recycling

    Polystyrene Foam Recycling Reprinted with permission from Plastic Recycling Update (May 2016) and Resource Recycling magazine (June 2016). Senior Consultant Catherine Goodall and Communications Consultant Marissa Segundo co-authored an article that focuses on real-world success of polystyrene foam recovery. Foam polystyrene is arguably one of the most commonly used consumer packaging materials that is not commonly recycled. […]

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