PR3 is the global alliance to advance reuse.
Reuse is a crucial solution to both the plastic and climate crises.
PR3’s mission is to empower and accelerate reuse systems around the world.
PR3 developed the only global standards to undergird reuse systems and infrastructure.
PR3 now convenes a multi-sectoral Panel to maintain and revise the Standards.
Meet the Team
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hannah Alday
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pat Kaufman
CITIES REUSE
Pat Kaufman works with organizations, companies, and communities to advance reuse. He draws on over 30 years of experience in resource management, including coordinating programs and operations for recycling, composting, and waste prevention strategies. He translates knowledge in Community & Environmental Planning to implementing and scaling reuse in facilities, cities, and regions around the world.
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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.
Creating systems.
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.