Emily McGill

TLC collaboration Strategist

Emily is an experienced Vancouver-based Consultant working in sustainability and innovation for systems change. Since earning her Bachelor of Bioresource Engineering, she has specialized in two main fields: waste prevention and resource recovery especially for organics recycling (composting), and the grassroots evolution of collaborative structures for organizational and network governance. It's this governance focus that brings her to the Textile Lab for Circularity, where she's on board as the team's Collaboration Strategist, with overall project management, bookkeeping, contract and agreement creation among her core tasks. Highlights of her other roles and experience include solid waste management planning, waste auditing, waste prevention education, co-creating an online zero waste design portfolio, and co-founding and administering an international field testing program for compostable foodware with local foodware company BSIbio. Since 2015 she has fostered community-based projects in sustainability, circular economy and regenerative systems design, in particular Master Recycler Vancouver and the Living Systems Network.