Reuse is essential to solve both the plastic and climate crises.

PR3 and its global partners are advancing Reuse Standards to support and empower the move away from single-use packaging.

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Meet the Team

  • Amy Larkin

    FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR

    Amy Larkin, Founder and Director, is an award-winning entrepreneur, activist and author, and has been at the forefront of the environmental movement for decades. From 2014-2016, she served as Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change. While Greenpeace Solutions Director, Amy led a radical collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum to remove HFCs from refrigeration systems. This spurred the inclusion of HFCs in the Montreal Protocol and received Harvard's Roy Award. Amy is a Grist 50 2024 Climate Leader.

  • Claudette Juska

    CO-FOUNDER AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

    Claudette Juska, Co-Founder and Technical Director, is a trained engineer and researcher with 20 years’ experience in the environmental movement. She is an expert in supply chain research, having studied and intervened in the supply chains of the seafood, forest product, automobile, fossil fuel, and plastics industries. She has deep knowledge of the complexities involved in sourcing, manufacturing and delivering consumer goods and works to create and promote solutions to environmental and social concerns along the supply route.

  • Mason Hines

    SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER AND NEGOTIATOR

    Mason Hines, Project Manager, a Mediator at RESOLVE. He focuses primarily on health and social issues that affect it - including food, water safety, nutrient access, employment, housing, education, and more. His work often involves engaging expert stakeholders to build agreements and solutions that improve wellness, advance research, promote sound policies, and develop practical resources.

  • Hannah Alday

    SENIOR PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

    Hannah Alday is a Program Associate at RESOLVE where her work focuses on supporting collaboration across diverse sectors to move systems change forward within the PR3 team. She brings experience working with communities across the United States to strategize, fund, and implement community-driven solutions around food equity, resource stewardship, and nutrition access.

  • Hide Harashima

    TECHNOLOGY

    Hide Harashima is a senior level technologist and entrepreneur and PR3’s Communications Technology partner. He has 25 years experience at startups and enterprise companies to build purposeful technology products that engage customers and revolutionize how they work. He was the head of technology for 11 years at Premier Research Group, a global professional services company providing clinical development services to the pharmaceutical industry, where he authored data standards and policies to the pharmaceutical industry, FDA, and NIH clients.

  • Ray Mendez

    COMMUNICATIONS

    Ray Mendez is a brand-marketing strategist and PR3’s Communications partner. He works to inspire and activate diverse stakeholders in the reuse ecosystem. Ray has led transformative campaigns for numerous multinational corporations, as well as The National Women’s Law Center, Greenpeace, New York Cares, The Dutch Safety Council, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Amnesty International. Ray also led the Concept Farm, an award winning NYC agency for 12 years, and was awarded for creativity at Cannes with The Gold Lion.

  • Tiza Mafira

    LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY, INDONESIA

    Tiza Mafira is a law and public policy expert specializing in environmental law, waste management, and climate change policy. She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Laws from Universitas Indonesia. She leads the Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia, a non-profit think tank and advisory organization focused on public policy related to land use and energy transitions. Since 2013, she is co-founder and Executive Director of the Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Movement.

  • Zulfikar

    ENGINEER, INDONESIA

    Zulfikar is an engineer with more than 10 years of experience in waste management, environmental awareness, and environmental engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung. He co-founded Waste4Change as the first responsible waste management provider in Indonesia. In 2015, he joined Fichtner Consulting Engineers to work as a waste management specialist for the Emission Reduction in Cities (ERiC) project.

  • Suz Okie

    DESIGN CONTEST ADMINISTRATOR

    Suz Okie is a circularity strategist — bringing agility, creativity, systems thinking and innovation to circular challenges. Formerly of the GreenBiz Group, she designed and managed the program content for Circularity, the largest circular economy conference, and co-wrote Circularity Weekly, an industry-leading newsletter on all things circular as the Director of Design Strategy and Circular Economy. She recently co-founded Reuse Maine, a volunteer coalition of local businesses, environmental nonprofits, and community leaders who are building a robust reuse ecosystem.

  • Stephen D'Esposito

    PRESIDENT AND CEO, RESOLVE

    Stephen D’Esposito is the President and CEO of RESOLVE and a Solutions Strategist. Trained as a policy advocate, he helps partners envision, design, and implement innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, and Steve offers his strategic vision to PR3.

What was impossible is now inevitable.

Whether you are a policy maker, a business leader or an environmentalist, you can use the PR3 Reusable Packaging Standards to help your community transition to a healthier future.

Our Supporters

  • The Plastic Solutions Fund is an international funder collaborative. We provide a trusted platform for new philanthropic investment in pursuit of our vision, and promote innovative collaboration among individuals and institutions in order to galvanize radical, large-scale and permanent solutions to the problem of plastic pollution. The collaborative is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to help donors create thoughtful and effective philanthropy throughout the world.

  • Bloomberg Philanthropies is a philanthropic organization that encompasses all of the charitable giving of founder Michael R. Bloomberg. Headquartered in New York City, Bloomberg Philanthropies focuses its resources on five areas: the environment, public health, the arts, government innovation and education.

  • Inspired and informed by interconnectedness, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global supports programs in arts and culture and Buddhism, and funds initiatives that enhance the wellbeing of humanity and the environment.

    The Foundation is a private philanthropy with historical roots in Hong Kong and a global vision. Our work is guided by the values of our founder and made possible through the ongoing engagement of the Ho family.

  • Walmart founded the Walmart Foundation as an internal corporate philanthropic organization in 1979 with a mission to create opportunities so people can live better. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation accomplish this through grants to the thousands of organizations that share this mission. The focus is on helping people live better. One community at a time.

  • Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Through their grant-making, they support others to make the world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live.

  • PR3 is a proud winner of the Re-X Before Recycling Prize! With our brilliant panel of global experts across the reuse ecosystem, we’re creating standards for reusable packaging systems and blueprint for the world’s multi-use economy. Thank you to the U.S. Department of Energy and its national laboratories for supporting both product and systems innovations that will keep materials in use beyond a single life cycle. It’s the only way we’ll solve our waste, pollution and climate crises.

Reusing just 10% of plastics products could reduce the equivalent of 50% of annual plastic ocean waste.

Scaling up reuse systems in the United States could avoid creating 7.5 million tons of material and prevent 17 billion pieces of litter.

“Reusing 10% Will Stop Almost Half of Plastic Waste from Entering the Ocean,” World Economic Forum, July 22, 2021

Reuse model figure from “Reuse – rethinking packaging,” Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2019

Creating systems.

PR3, established in 2019 is activating the world’s first interoperable and standardized reuse systems intended for consumer goods as well as food and beverage packaging.

Core partners of Reuse Seattle and the Jakarta Reuse Movement, and we are working to embed standards in more city-level reuse systems around the world, collaborating with Perpetual in the U.S., Zero Waste Europe in the E.U., and others.

The PR3 Standards are a recommended resource in WWF’s Plastic Policy Summit Report: ‘Domestic Solutions for a Global Problem’.

Convening a consensus body, with representatives from industry, government, and civil society, to refine and approve the standards following American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) Essential Requirements.

PR3 believes reuse must be an essential pillar of the Global Plastic Treaty being negotiated now by the UN. Read PR3’s recommendations for the Global Plastics Treaty.