Marisa Adler

Marisa Adler is a Senior Consultant with Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) where she leads RRS’s textile circularity practice and supports Signalfire Group’s Textile Policy Services. Her work focuses on the role of collaborative action and policy in advancing systems change to recover textiles.

Marisa serves as Chair of the New York State Association of Reduction, Reuse and Recycling’s Textile Recycling Council, on the Board of Directors for the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART) Association, and as a member of the California Product Stewardship Statewide Textile Recycling and Advisory Committee. She also advises circular textile startup CirTex Corp. A frequent speaker on scaling textile recovery, Marisa authored the 2020 report “Textile Recovery in the U.S.: A Roadmap to Circularity.”

Prior to joining RRS, Marisa led waste reduction policy and programming for the NYC Department of Sanitation. She holds degrees in Natural Resource Management and Conservation from Cornell University and Antioch New England Graduate School.