Rhodes is executive director of the BPI, North America’s leading authority on compostable packaging. Rhodes’ expertise is on the circular bioeconomy and systems-based solutions, specifically the synergy in solving for food waste and packaging at the same time – to address climate change, ecosystem impacts, and regenerative agriculture.  He served on the Board of USCC, as Mentor for the Google Circular Economy Accelerator, is on the Advisory Council for the US Plastics Pact, and was an editor and writer at BioCycle magazine.