Dan Martens

Vice President

Novamont

Dan Martens is the North American VP for Novamont, a global leader in the research and production of biopolymers. Novamont, headquartered in Novara, Italy is a certified B Corporation ranked in the top 4% globally, and has been awarded the “Best for the World” designation for the last two years. Novamont North America is headquartered in Shelton, CT. Dan consults with food scrap collections with the cities of New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto food. He has assisted California and Washington State regarding policy. As part of the NRDC Food Matters program in 2019, Novamont hosted 5 U.S. cities on a tour of Northern Italy food waste prevention, collections and processing systems. Dan serves on the following boards: Canadian Compost Council, BPI, PIA – Bioplastics (Chair). Dan serves as an advisory board member to SCRI, a USDA-funded 5-year study of plastics in agriculture with Washington State, Nebraska State, and the University of Tennessee. He was invited to be a team member with Canadian federal level workgroups with the Ministry of Environment in Ontario and the ECCC. Additionally, Dan enjoys volunteering as a mentor for the U.S. Composting Council, and as a UConn Master Composter.