NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, announced today that it has named Allen Hershkowitz, Ph.D. Senior Sustainability Advisor.
Dr. Hershkowitz is the co-founder and current President of the Green Sports Alliance (GSA), a coalition of hundreds of sports teams, leagues and venues committed to protecting the conditions that make life on Earth possible. He is also Distinguished Professor in Sustainability Management in the MBA Program of the Presidio Graduate School, where he teaches an MBA-level course on Sustainability and Sports and directs the Center for Sustainability in Sports and Entertainment.
Dr. Hershkowitz served as Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for 26 years, between 1988 and 2014, helping to grow NRDC into one of the most influential and largest environmental organizations in the world. He was the driving force behind many of the organization’s most effective and visible initiatives. Through the years, he has championed systemic change on critical issues ranging from sustainable development and recycling to forestry, paper industry impacts, mountaintop coal mining, waste incineration, and medical wastes. He was also the Director of three of NRDC’s highest profile projects: the Sports and Entertainment Greening Project, the Solid Waste Project and the Paper Industry Project.
“As a bona fide leader in the movement to make environmental responsibility understandable and achievable for every individual and institution, Allen has long been a huge inspiration to all of us at ERI,” said John Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of ERI. “We are tremendously honored to have him join us as Senior Sustainability Advisor. His knowledge and experience is truly second to none. As ERI continues to set the bar high in terms of standards for our industry, and for sustainable organizations in general, we’re confident that Allen’s wisdom and contributions will be significant.”
Dr. Hershkowitz is among the nation’s progressive pioneers in environmental responsibility. His work in the field of industrial ecology has ranged from advising corporations such as DuPont, Disney, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Hugo Neu and Sims Metal Management and numerous other firms in their sustainability efforts, to protecting ecologically compromised areas in Belize, fragile Appalachian ecosystems threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining, the boreal forests and other ecologically irreplaceable areas.
His affiliations with the nation’s most prominent leaders and agencies also run deep. Dr. Hershkowitz helped author President Clinton’s “Greening the Government” Presidential Executive Order in 1993, and he served for nine years on the DuPont Corporation’s Bio-Based Fuels Life Cycle Assessment Advisory Board. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council Committee on the Health Effects of Waste Incineration. He has also served as the Chairman of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner's Advisory Board on Operating Requirements for Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators.
Among his lengthy list of achievements and distinctions, he was a member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Sludge Incineration, as well as the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Peer Review Panel for its Report to Congress on the Health Implications of Medical Waste.
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Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the world’s largest privately held recycler of electronic waste, is e-Stewards and R2 certified to de-manufacture and recycle every type of electronic waste in an environmentally friendly manner. ERI processes more than 275 million pounds of electronic waste annually at eight locations serving every zip code in the United States. For more information about e-waste recycling and ERI, call 1-800-ERI-DIRECT or visit www.electronicrecyclers.com.