Anna Sacks

Waste Thought Leader & Influencer

Anna Sacks

Waste Thought Leader & Influencer

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Biography

Anna Sacks is a waste expert focused on passing waste legislation in the US and raising consciousness on social media. Anna is the Legislative Chair for the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board and co-founder of NYC’s #SaveOurCompost coalition, which formed in response to COVID-related composting budget cuts. She previously worked at the waste consulting firm Think Zero LLC, on a regenerative farm through the Adamah Jewish farming fellowship, and as an analyst at an investment bank.

On social media, with half a million followers as the @thetrashwalker, Anna documents the usable items that she finds in both corporate and residential waste to raise people’s consciousness about waste and consumption.

Anna’s work exposing corporate waste has forced major corporations to change their unsustainable policies. After Anna’s expose with the New York Post showing Starbucks’ ongoing food waste—despite their public pledge to donate all unsold food — Starbucks announced new environmental goals. And as a result of a viral TikTok Anna created juxtaposing Coach’s sustainability claims with their policy to destroy handbags, Coach announced that it would stop destroying in-store returns. Her change.org petition urging CVS to #donatedontdump unsold merchandise has received nearly half a million signatures.

Anna has been featured in many publications including The Guardian, New York Times, NowThis, and BuzzFeed. She has appeared on television programs in Japan, South Korea, France, Austria, Germany, Canada, and the US. In 2020, she was named a 36 Under 36 changemaker by The Jewish Week.