Founder & CEO Lindsey Hoell experienced the enormity of the global waste crisis first-hand through her time spent near the coast, constantly seeing trash wash up on our beloved shorelines. In 2016, she helped launch the Surfrider Foundation's Ocean Friendly Restaurants, a pilot program that was designed to help restaurants meet or exceed sustainable targets. The program has since gained nationwide adoption and continues to build an inclusive community of eco-conscious restaurants.
But the problem of excessive waste from single-use products continued to gnaw at Lindsey. So, in 2020, while enrolled in UC Berkeley's MBA program, she launched Dispatch Goods to help solve this massive problem. Dispatch Goods is a women-led and founded reverse logistics company building a platform that makes reuse plug and play for businesses.
To date, Dispatch Goods has kept over seven million items out of the waste stream and will keep growing with our partners until waste is a thing of the past. Our team is extraordinarily talented, with many team members leaving industry-leading companies and roles to contribute to major climate solutions, like waste reduction! We envision a world where nothing is wasted.
- Lindsey Hoell, CEO