{"id":4046,"date":"2018-03-14T00:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=4046"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T23:37:16","slug":"susanna-carson","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/speaker\/susanna-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Susanna Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susanna Carson is the founder and CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsibio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.bsibio.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521051979669000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFdTBxs9d08y58u1rEglSdKDdC6Zg\">BSIbio<\/a>\u00a0Packaging Solutions, a compostable packaging distribution company, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.besics.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.besics.ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521051979669000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSDcW0ZldVTqVCgaBhRIwTZTvYzw\">B\u00e9sics\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0Packaging Corporation, a compostable retail products company.\u00a0\u00a0Ms. Carson holds a BSc. in Biology, an MSc. In\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">Zoology<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span>(Biodiversity) and has more than 22 years of education and work experience in environmental issues and business development.\u00a0\u00a0Susanna serves as Co-chair of the Product and Packaging Working Group of the\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwc.ca\/focus\/design\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nzwc.ca\/focus\/design\/Pages\/default.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521051979669000&amp;usg=AFQjCNECCsqv_d3u-pl0-r7PrukbS9xCuQ\">National Zero Waste Council<\/a>\u00a0(2014 to present)<\/i>.\u00a0 Her companies are currently partnering on a North American packaging to facility testing program with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compostfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.compostfoundation.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521051979669000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHGCpKl2iifGItSpahtj0BoZpG59Q\"><i>Composting Council Research and Education Foundation<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i>Susanna is a founding member of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturecanada.ca\/initiatives\/women-for-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/naturecanada.ca\/initiatives\/women-for-nature\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1521051979669000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG6bl5FWFOKN8fn20XmqyRUEWCGBA\"><i>Women for Nature<\/i><\/a>, supporting environmental conservation and education programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4065,"template":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}