Judith Enck

Judith Enck is the president of Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit organization working to combat plastic pollution through education, advocacy, and policy change.

A dynamic community leader who has spent her expansive career working to protect public health and the environment, Judith began as an environmental advocate and has held top influential positions in state and federal government. Appointed by President Obama, Judith served as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overseeing environmental protection in NY, NJ, 8 Indian Nations, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Using deep policy and advocacy expertise, Beyond Plastics is building a well-informed, effective movement seeking to achieve the institutional, economic, and societal changes needed to save our planet and ourselves, from the negative health, climate, and environmental impacts for the production, usage, and disposal of plastics.

Through Beyond Plastics, Judith works to pass policies on the local, state, and federal level that reduce the production and use of plastic. Her expertise includes plastic's impacts on the environment, the climate, human health, and environmental justice.

Judith has led aggressive campaigns to hold plastic companies accountable for their waste; for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban vinyl chloride, the human carcinogen used in PVC plastic; to expose plastic's role in climate change; to debunk the myth that plastics recycling can curb the plastic pollution crisis; and to prevent the buildout of plastic production and chemical recycling facilities across the United States.

Judith is also a professor at Bennington College, where she teaches classes on plastic pollution, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

Sub-specialties:
Plastic pollution, plastic's impacts on human health, plastic's impacts on environmental justice, plastic's impacts on climate change, plastic policy, federal policy, state policy, local policy, vinyl chloride, chemical recycling, advanced recycling, plastic recycling, plastic myths, compostable plastic, biodegradable plastic, bioplastics, EPA, PVC plastic