Ron Gonen

2021

The Co-Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm that maximizes value by aligning capitalism with positive social and environmental impact via investments in material science, advanced recycling technologies, supply chain optimization and sustainable consumer products. Prior to Closed Loop Partners, Ron served as the Deputy Commissioner for Sanitation, Recycling and Sustainability in New York City during the Bloomberg Administration. He was previously the Co-Founder and CEO of RecycleBank. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he also earned an MBA.

How the next revolution in business will provide for a sustainable future, from founder, CEO and circular economy expert Ron Gonen

●Ron Gonen, known as NYC’s ‘Recycling Czar’ under Mayor Bloomberg, is founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm and innovation center focused on building the circular economy.

●The Waste-Free World reveals the history of our wasteful consumption, which has cheated us out of taxpayer money, lucrative innovation, and a habitable planet. And it makes a persuasive, forward-looking case for a circular economic model, which wastes little to no natural resources in a “closed-loop” system that works in harmony with our environment. Circularity is crucial for the planet, and it holds immense business opportunity.

●Gonen introduces a wave of brilliant innovations with potential to scale: “smart” packaging, robotics and AI that optimize recycling and reuse, nutrient rich fabrics, food waste technologies, and many more.

●Publishing during Earth Month, and in the aftershock of the pandemic, this solution-oriented book will speak to concerned citizens, individual investors, and business leaders, in a time of growing urgency around climate change, and growing opportunity around new trends and technologies.