Mickey Reedy / Co – Director

Mickey started her food waste journey many years ago in commercial kitchens and feels most at home in an apron. Having completed a PGCE in 2013, Mickey helped develop Edible Education and later Cirque De Surplus and has enjoyed taking part in food education, performance and production in extremely diverse settings. She continues to campaign for a fairer food system in her current role at North Paddington Food Bank. Mickey is dedicated to celebrating all things edible and still can’t pass a skip without taking a look inside.

Poppy Flint / Co – Director

Poppy is a creative at heart and dedicated to educating and inspiring people of all ages to engage with environmental and social issues. She holds a BA in Theatre: Design for Performance and an MSc in Education for Sustainability, and currently works as a freelance educator and project coordinator. Poppy has been involved with This is Rubbish (TiR) since it was founded in 2009. She conceived of the values-led Edible Education project for This is Rubbish in 2014 and continues to be a co-coordinator. Poppy is deeply engaged in her local east London community, currently developing a Waltham Forest Food Rescuers volunteer network.

Melvyn Newton / Co – Director

Melvyn’s teenage years in rural Essex were filled with all kinds of farm work and his twenties were spent in restaurant kitchens cooking all sorts of cuisine, so perhaps it was inevitable that the last few years would be taken up with junk food cooking, campaigning for better food systems and getting back to farm work, helping an organic market garden take its deserved place in Sheffield’s ecosystem and looking after his new allotment.

Hammad Kazi / Co – Director

Hammad has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Management, several years experience in the food sector and is currently studying for an MSc in Food Economics and Marketing. His current focus is research-based policy with the eventual goal that of playing a part in improving food security in society. He serves on the Board of Trustees for a Development Education Centre in Reading. 

Martin Bowman / EU Campaigns Manager

Martin has been a campaigner dedicated to fighting food waste since saving a damaged copy of Tristram Stuart’s book Waste from being thrown away in a bookshop in 2009. Since making wonky veg puppets and dressing up as a fox for This is Rubbish in 2011, he co-wrote TIR’s Counting What Matters Report, and was Campaigns and Media Coordinator for TIR’s Stop the Rot campaign. He currently manages This is Rubbish’s EU Food Waste Campaign. Since 2012, he’s also been the UK Gleaning Coordinator for Feedback, coordinating a UK-wide network to harvest food that would otherwise have been wasted on farms, and redistributing it to charities dealing with food poverty – see his TEDx talk. 

Harry Morgan / Plenty to Share Coordinator

Harry came to This is Rubbish as a performer and food waste scavenger in 2018, but found his proper place in the team as coordinator for the Plenty to Share Campaign at the start of 2022. Harry is well versed in all aspects of food surplus redistribution and frontline charity work, having worked for FareShare for 3+ years, and writing his Masters dissertation on food surplus redistribution and systemic solutions at The Centre for Alternative Technology. Jack of all trades and master of none, he’s a bit of a project manager, coordinator, design thinker, communicator, spreadsheet lover, Miro-maker, systems mapper, scrap wood carpenter, double bass player and gluten free baker. 

Pascale Robinson / Youth Session Worker & Edible Education Coordinator

Pascale is a campaigner and project manager who wants everyone to know they can be instigators for positive change. For Pascale, tackling food waste offers great solutions to several social and environmental justice issues and she has been campaigning on food waste since 2014 when she first rifled through a bin. She helped set up a food waste redistribution and reduction network for businesses in Edinburgh, has worked for Feedback as campaign and events coordinator since 2015, and is really happy to be new member of the Edible Education team, coordinating sessions for young people and making a lot of fruit kebabs along the way.