Dr Heinz Schandl is a senior science leader at the CSIRO Land & Water Division. His research informs evidence based policies for sustainable consumption and production, resource efficiency, waste minimization and the circular economy. He is the president of the International Society of Industrial Ecology, a member of the UNEP International Resource Panel and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School for Environmental Studies at Nagoya University, Japan. He is the waste mission lead for the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub and a member of the Recycling and Clean Energy taskforce for the Modern Manufacturing Initiative.