Sheila Morovati

Sheila Morovati is the President and Founder of the Los Angeles based non-profit organization HabitsofWaste.org. Habits of Waste focuses on finding solutions to shift habits of waste among mass society. Today, Sheila is known for many innovative campaigns but her work began by spearheading the world’s first ban of plastic straws and cutlery in the City of Malibu. Next, she created #CutOutCutlery which convinced all major food delivery applications (globally) to change their default setting so that users no longer receive plastic cutlery unless requested. This led to the passing of California State Bill AB 1276, which has saved billions of pieces of plastic cutlery from entering the waste stream. In an effort to denormalize plastic consumption, Sheila created #LightsCameraPlastic? and is working with the entertainment industry to stop from showing single-use plastic on screen wherever possible. Habits of Waste is running numerous other campaigns to drive change that are focused on protecting the planet through a collective societal effort of individuals making slight changes to their lifestyles. Sheila is also the founder of another non-profit called CrayonCollection.org, which has already expanded to 50 states and 9 countries since its launch in 2013. She is also a part of several climate action groups within the World Economic Forum.