Sydney Harris

As policy director at Upstream, Sydney enjoys supporting stakeholders across sectors as they design, pass, and implement strong policies and programs that drive packaging reduction and reuse. She is recognized for supporting the passage of the nation’s first packaging EPR laws and she continues to support EPR, DRS, and other systemic policies at the state and federal level across the US and Canada. She also co-leads Reuse Maine – a community-based reuse coalition that is working to catalyze the development of reuse systems in the Pine Tree state.