I would be honored to serve on the NCRA Board. I’m the founder of EarthSort, an app that tells residents which bin an item goes in under their city’s rules. I also bring board experience, serving on the Board of Angel Flight West and as Treasurer of the Schoellkopf Foundation.
My love of the environment started early. From age 10 into my twenties, I spent summers in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where my mother ran a tented safari business. With no electricity and no store, we fixed and adapted whatever we had.
For most of my career I led data divisions in banking, including more than 20 years at First Republic Bank, turning messy information into decisions people could trust. EarthSort puts those same skills to work on waste.
Over the past two years I’ve attended conferences across California and Oregon and talked with waste leaders about information gaps and resident education. This year I attended NCRA’s Recycling Update and Advocacy Day, and joined the Reuse & Repair Committee.
As SB 54, SB 707 and other new rules roll out, residents will be asked to change how they recycle, reuse and discard what they own. On the board, I want to help make those changes easy to understand and act on, bringing my technical and leadership experience.
I’d be grateful for your vote.
William Neil
