NATASHA DYER

Acting Executive Director & Program Manager, SWEEP

After spending over a decade in the garment manufacturing industry as a production fashion designer, in 2012 Natasha learned that landfilling organic waste was the 3rd cause of manmade greenhouse gas emissions that was warming the planet. It wasn’t long after that she was pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Urban Sustainability from Antioch University-Los Angeles where all capstone and fieldwork was based on the theory that municipalities should be accelerating the diversion of organics from landfill. Within the next decade, she went on to work for a waste industry environmental consultancy, a waste hauler, and a city government with all work focused on organics waste diversion. Now as a lifelong zero waster, she’s excited to have just joined, in 2023, another waste industry environmental consultancy firm focused on helping municipalities nationwide create circular solutions for their entire waste streams.