2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Caroline Barry is a Program Manager at Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy, a leading investment firm, innovation center, and recycling operator at the forefront of the circular economy. The Center unites competitors and partners to tackle complex material challenges and implement systemic change to advance circularity and create a future in which materials are shared, reused, and continuously cycled. Caroline co-leads the Center’s Composting Consortium, a multi-year collaboration across the entire compostable packaging value chain to pilot industry-wide solutions and build a roadmap for investment in technologies and infrastructure that enable the recovery of compostable food scraps and food-contact compostable packaging. She holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Food Systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder.