Board of Directors Election

Christine Yeager
CSY Impact Consulting
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Christine Yeager is a strategic project leader and sustainability expert with over 15 years of experience in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry. At Coca-Cola, she spent more than a decade leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in sustainability strategy, program management, business planning, and technology implementation. Her work set enterprise-wide direction for packaging innovation and circular economy goals—pairing operational rigor with compelling communications to amplify progress in the marketplace.
As founder of CSY Impact Consulting, Christine helps businesses navigate the complexities of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation and embed circularity into their core strategies. A key architect of Circular Action Alliance’s producer engagement framework, she brings deep credibility at the intersection of policy fluency, corporate operations, and stakeholder trust.
Christine is known for her ability to turn evolving regulatory demands into strategic opportunities. Through CSY Impact Consulting, she delivers practical, business-aligned solutions that go beyond compliance. Strategies that enable cost optimization, brand resilience, and measurable sustainability outcomes. Her project management approach is grounded in clarity, collaboration, and results.

Coryanne Mansell
RRS
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Coryanne Mansell is a Senior Consultant at Resource Recycling Systems (RRS). At RRS, she works with communities and public-sector partners across Colorado and the country to advance recycling, organics management, waste reduction, and circular economy initiatives. In her current role, she has worked closely with Colorado Circular Communities Enterprise Fund team to support the Strategic Technical Expertise for the Public Sector program. These projects have encompassed program development, policy analysis, and planning for waste diversion and aversion. She has worked with communities on projects ranging from construction and demolition recycling and organics programs to waste prevention policies, hauler licensing, and regional waste diversion planning.Prior to joining RRS, Coryanne led the Wasted Food Solutions portfolio at the Center for EcoTechnology (CET), a portfolio of projects focused on preventing wasted food, increasing food donation, and helping businesses implement solutions to manage food scraps. Her work with businesses, communities, and government partners across the country strengthened her interest in practical, scalable approaches to waste reduction and resource recovery. Coryanne has also held leadership roles with the U.S. Composting Council (USCC) and was recognized as the 2026 Recycler of the Year for her contributions to the recycling and composting fields.

A Colorado resident and longtime advocate for waste reduction, She is particularly interested in supporting Recycle Colorado’s work to build connections between policy, communities, end-markets, and infrastructure to make waste prevention and circularity more accessible and effective. Outside of work, Coryanne enjoys exploring Colorado’s mountains and experimenting in the kitchen, especially creative baking projects that make use of ingredients that might otherwise go to waste.

Jimena Baldino
City of Aspen
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Jimena Baldino is a Sustainability Programs Administrator with the City of Aspen’s Environmental Health and Sustainability Department. In her role, she develops, implements, and manages programs and policies that advance the City’s waste diversion, recycling, composting, and sustainability goals. Her work includes overseeing Aspen’s recycling and composting initiatives, coordinating special recycling collection events, supporting regional waste diversion partnerships, managing bilingual outreach and education efforts, approving public special events, and leading updates to municipal codes and regulations related to municipal solid waste.

Jimena works closely with residents, businesses, event organizers, property managers, waste haulers, and community partners to advance practical solutions that reduce waste, increase diversion rates, and support a more sustainable and resilient community. Through collaboration, education, and program development, she helps further the City of Aspen’s greenhouse gas reduction and waste diversion goals. Jimena also leads public engagement initiatives, develops educational resources, and partners across departments and organizations to implement projects that advance Aspen’s climate, sustainability, and environmental objectives.

Passionate about environmental stewardship, community engagement, and behavior change, Jimena believes that successful sustainability programs are built through collaboration, education, and equitable access to resources. As a bilingual professional, she is committed to making sustainability initiatives accessible and meaningful to diverse audiences and helping empower community members to take action toward a more sustainable future.

John Armstrong
Onalytics

John Armstrong is the Administrator of SEECRA in Las Animas and the former General Manager of Clean Valley Recycling in Otero County. He currently manages special projects for both organizations, including their merger.

John founded B1 Recycling in 2012 and relocated the business to Salida in 2020. Across thirteen years in recycling he has worked nearly every part of the operation, from collection and processing through commodity marketing and, more recently, regulatory compliance.

Before returning to recycling full time, he served as a City Planner for the City of Salida and as Town Planner for the Town of Poncha Springs. That municipal background shapes how he approaches regulation: less as an abstraction, more as a process that either works for the people implementing it or not.

Over the past year John finalized one of the first Circular Action Alliance service provider contracts in Colorado and now oversees compliance reporting under the state's Extended Producer Responsibility program. He secured a C3 capacity building grant for Clean Valley Recycling, and he works directly with CAA's data and verification team on how processor data should be structured and submitted.

That work has been an education. The service agreement runs 181 pages and contains 157 defined terms. Getting it right has meant learning things the hard way that other operators are about to face, and much of what he has learned is worth sharing rather than repeating.

John is also the founder of Onalytics, a software company serving recycling facilities and solving for the challenges of data and compliance reporting.

He is running for the Board because the operators doing this work every day should have a voice in how the program takes shape. Colorado is among the first states implementing EPR, which means the practices established here will influence how the rest of the country does it. That is an opportunity, and it is also a risk for the facilities with the least capacity to absorb a badly designed requirement.

If elected, John would focus on making Recycle Colorado a practical resource for small and rural operators navigating compliance: shared solutions, best practices, plain answers, and a place to call someone who has already worked through theses challenges.

Julia Lennon
We Don't Waste
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My name is Julia Lennon, and I am the Director of Education & Advocacy at Denver based food recovery nonprofit We Don’t Waste (WDW). WDW’s vision is that food goes to people, not landfills, and is accessible to all. This deeply aligns with my own personal mission to divert waste from landfill whenever possible, and belief that food is a human right. Since I learned about “reduce, reuse, recycle” in elementary school, I have been passionate about helping our planet through preventing and reducing waste.

I received my BA from Northeastern University in Environmental Studies & International Affairs. During my time in university, I interned with Ceres, where I was tasked with researching food waste as a topic for investors to pose to companies to set sustainability goals to manage and reduce their waste. This helped me to realize the intersection of food and the environment is really where my interest lies, and when I moved out to Denver and found We Don’t Waste I was excited to work in this space of food waste recovery.

I am a newer member of Recycle Colorado, and excited at this opportunity to grow in my role, deepen my understanding, and make more connections! I am especially interested in making connections between compost haulers and food recovery organizations across the state to reduce the amount of edible food that ends up not being consumed. I have valued my time so far as a Recycle Colorado member, and enjoyed participation in lobby days over the last few years. I have been involved in waste diversion in Denver over the past 8 years while I have worked at WDW. I was a member of Denver’s Sustainability Advisory Council’s zero waste committee from 2022-2024, and learned a lot about local waste diversion organizations and policies. In advocating for food access and food waste reduction in Colorado, I have built relationships with state legislators, edited draft policies, and testified for bills. I have been active in attending the Recycle Colorado policy committee and organics policy subcommittee meetings, and am very excited about the proposed organic waste diversion bill that prioritizes and encourages edible food to people. I have talked with advocacy partners about a bill like this for years and would be so proud to see it pass in 2027!

Rachel Setzke
Eco-Cycle
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Rachel Setzke (she/her) has been with Eco-Cycle since 2019. In her role as Senior Policy Advisor, she researches trends and best practices in recycling, organics diversion and use of compost, Zero Waste and circularity in order to support Eco-Cycle’s education and advocacy work. Her work has focused on providing policy and program solutions at the community and state levels as well as studying diversion access, trends and scalable solutions across Colorado and the US. Rachel is a lead author of the annual State of Recycling and Composting in Colorado Report and an author of the Municipal Blueprint for Compost Expansion. Rachel has helped draft, advocate for, and implement state laws including the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, Producer Responsibility for packaging and batteries, and two compost bills. She is an active member of Recycle Colorado’s Board, Greater Colorado Council, and Policy Committee, as well as multiple national groups working on Extended Producer Responsibility. Rachel was born and raised in Colorado and has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years.

Scott Hutchings
WM
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Toni Olson
Pretred
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Toni Olson is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and sustainability leader passionate about advancing practical, market-based solutions for waste diversion and the circular economy in Colorado. As Director of Marketing at Pretred, a Colorado cleantech manufacturer, Toni leads strategic marketing, brand positioning, communications, government affairs and stakeholder engagement. Pretred transforms end-of-life tires into durable infrastructure products, creating a high-value end market for a challenging waste stream.

Through her work at Pretred, Toni has developed a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in building markets for recycled materials. She has worked at the intersection of business, policy, funding, manufacturing, and sustainability, including supporting Pretred’s expansion into tire processing and vertically integrated manufacturing in Colorado. This experience has strengthened her belief that meaningful waste diversion requires not only collection and processing infrastructure, but also strong, sustainable end markets for recovered materials.

Toni holds a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from Tufts University. Her career spans more than three decades of entrepreneurial leadership, including co-founding and leading a successful health-focused company for twenty years and helping launch a sustainable aeroponic urban farm in Denver. Through these ventures, she developed extensive experience in business operations, strategic planning, communications, financial oversight, and growing mission-driven organizations.

Community service has also been an important part of Toni’s leadership. As PTA President at Bear Creek K-8, she spearheaded an expansion of the school’s recycling program and helped establish a community garden. She has also served on the D’Evelyn High School Accountability Committee and volunteered with organizations including Denver Rescue Mission, Sox Place, Life is Better Rescue, and Girls on the Run.

Toni hopes to bring to the Recycle Colorado Board a collaborative, strategic, and business-minded perspective, along with expertise in communications, advocacy, market development, and stakeholder engagement. She is particularly interested in strengthening markets for recycled materials, advancing higher-value and more circular end uses, and helping align public policy with the economic realities of building successful recycling businesses. She looks forward to helping Recycle Colorado bring together industry, government, communities, and other stakeholders to accelerate Colorado’s transition toward a more circular economy.