Allen Langdon

As CEO, Allen is responsible for leading Circular Materials through the development of Ontario’s new blue box recycling system while expanding the organization’s operations into other provinces, including Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Yukon. His mission is to support producers with a robust not-for-profit service offering that advances the circular economy, delivers national harmonization of extended producer responsibility (EPR), and harnesses competitive procurement to provide the best value and service for producers.

Prior to joining Circular Materials, Allen served as the President and CEO of Return-It, a very successful used beverage container management program in British Columbia, Canada. Allen also served as the Managing Director for Recycle BC, the first 100% EPR program for paper and packaging in North America, in which industry assumed full financial and managerial responsibility for the residential recycling system.

Allen currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Washington State Recycling Development Centre.