Speaker profile
Melissa Lavoie
Melissa Lavoie is a Project Manager at the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA). In her role at NEWMOA, Melissa manages the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) and the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2).
In her role at TPCH, Melissa is the single point of contact for the regulated community for the 10 member states and affiliate members.
Melissa is a former Maine state representative, having served two terms on Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Melissa sponsored multiple environmental bills in Maine including product stewardship, paint, medical sharps, pharmaceuticals, compact fluorescent lamps, electronics expansion and beverage containers. Melissa was the sponsor of Maine’s first-in-the-nation Product Stewardship Framework Law of 2010 (enacted with unanimous bipartisan support).
After serving in the Maine legislature, Melissa served as the deputy director for Recycling Reinvented, a national nonprofit that worked to advance state-level extended producer responsibility policies to increase national recycling rates for packaging and printed paper.
Melissa is a former business consultancy owner, and has also held director roles in the areas of public housing and Alzheimer’s care,
Melissa holds a B.A. in Social Work from the University of Southern Maine.