2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Clare Miflin envisions a future without garbage, where urban systems are woven into ecosystems. In 2017, she led the development of the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, to show how to design the built environment to help cities achieve zero waste goals. An architect, systems thinker, and biomimicry certified professional, her goal is to support designers, communities, and policymakers by making zero waste strategies accessible and actionable, to improve buildings, neighborhoods, and cities.

Based in NYC, she is Executive Director of the Center for Zero Waste Design, a non-profit that develops circular strategies for cities, as well as Principal at ThinkWoven, a zero waste design consultancy.