2019 SWANApalooza

Scott Cassel
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Product Stewardship Institute


Scott Cassel has more than 30 years of experience tackling waste management issues in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. He is a founding board member and four-time past-president of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association (NAHMMA), and a founding board member of the Global Product Stewardship Council. Prior to founding PSI in 2000, he served seven years as the director of waste policy and planning for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He is also the author of a chapter in the 2008 Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste that focuses on product stewardship. Mr. Cassel is a nationally renowned leader in the product stewardship movement and has experience across multiple product categories. As PSI’s CEO, he developed the widely acclaimed facilitation process used for stakeholder engagement and consensus-building—a process that resulted in the nation’s first industry-run, government-mandated paint stewardship program. Mr. Cassel holds a Master’s degree in environmental policy and dispute resolution from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in geology and environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

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