Anja Schwetje is a Senior Scientific Officer of the German Environment Agency (UBA) in the Section III 2.4 ‘Waste Technology, Waste Technology Transfer’ and since 2014 responsible for topics on waste with a nexus to climate protection and methane emission reduction. She is the one of the Co-Leads of the Waste Hub of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Climate Change and Waste Management of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Co-Chair of the Working Group on Organic Waste of the PREVENT Waste Alliance and an active member of the Global Methane Initiative (GMI), the German RETech Partnership and others. By profession a process engineer, she has more than 30 years of international experience in waste management and circular economy.