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Lloyd Hicks

Lloyd Hicks specializes in the study of where products come from, what happens during use, and where they're going next. His recent work includes managing the creation of custom Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools that quantify the cradle-to-cradle environmental impacts of packaging materials, and helping create educational tools for a web-based LCA tool. He has taught at Pratt Institute and The New School on product life cycle thinking, helping students realize their role in reducing environmental impacts on human and environmental health.

Lloyd began his career as a designer working in research, strategy and product development at Daimler, Continuum, and IDEO. With his increasing awareness of the state of our environment, he shifted focus towards product-related environmental policies that included cleaner production, energy-efficiency and resource recovery. As part of his master's degree, his thesis work at Sony Europe focused on extended producer responsibility (EPR), policies requiring producers, rather than municipalities, to become responsible for the end-of-life part of a product's lifecycle. He returned to the U.S. as a policy analyst where he took part in the national effort to address the lack of electronics recycling programs, helping encourage the development of legislation by providing aid to government officials and advocacy groups. Lloyd also helped produce the first in a series of videos distributed via YouTube to educate the public on the environmental impacts of everyday products.

Lloyd has a BS in Industrial Design from North Carolina State University, and an MS in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University in Sweden.

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