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Bill Sheehan (biologist)

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Bill Sheehan (born August 6, 1947) is a biologist and environmental advocate. He is best known for his work on zero waste and extended producer responsibility[1] through two American nonprofit organizations. He co-founded Product Policy Institute[2][3][4][5] (now UPSTREAM[6]) in 2003 and was Executive Director until 2015. He co-founded GrassRoots Recycling Network[7][8] in 1995 and was Executive Director until 2003.

In 2017 he co-founded Fungal Diversity Survey, or FunDiS (formerly North American Mycoflora Project). FunDiS is a nonprofit organization that helps community scientists document the diversity and distribution of fungi across North America in order to protect them and their habitats. Sheehan was Board President through 2021.

Sheehan received a doctorate in insect ecology from Cornell University in 1987. He researched ecology of parasitoid wasps for biological control.[9][10]

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  1. ^ Motovalli, Jim (March 9, 2011). "A New Approach to Recycling". E–The Environmental Magazine.
  2. ^ Rabin, Emily (February 13, 2005). "Product Stewardship -- Who Takes out the Trash?". GreenBiz.
  3. ^ Zeller, Tom (Jan 2008). "Recycling: The big picture" (PDF). National Geographic. 213 (1): 82–87.
  4. ^ Strom, Stephanie (March 23, 2012). "Companies Pick Up Used Packaging, and Recycling's Cost". New York Times.
  5. ^ Burns, Melinda (January 21, 2010). "The Smoldering Trash Revolt". Miller-McCune Magazine.
  6. ^ "UPSTREAM - Sparking innovative solutions to plastic pollution".
  7. ^ Grist Staff (March 20, 2000). "Bill Sheehan, GrassRoots Recycling Network". Grist.
  8. ^ GrassRoots Recycling Network Archives http://archive.grrn.org/scrapbooks/index.html
  9. ^ Response by Specialist and Generalist Natural Enemies to Agroecosystem Diversification: A Selective Review |url=https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/15/3/456/2480356
  10. ^ Hawkins, Bradford A.; Sheehan, William (1994), Parasitoid Community Ecology, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-854058-8
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