Seetha Coleman-Kammula

Seetha Coleman-Kammula

Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2014
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Osmania University
Auburn University
Occupation chemist, environmentalist
Employer Royal Dutch Shell
Basell Polyolefins
Simply Sustain LLC
Spouse(s) Brian Coleman

Seetha Coleman-Kammula (born 1950) is an Indian chemist, environmentalist and entrepreneur. After over 25 years working in the petrochemical industry developing plastics, she began an environmental consulting firm in 2005. Her firm focuses on industrial ecology and assessment of the life cycle of products so that they are manufactured in processes that are environmentally aware of the future impact of waste products.

Biography

Seetha Coleman-Kammula was born in 1950[1] in India and attended her undergraduate studies at Osmania University of Hyderabad, India. She went on to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and then did her post-graduate research at Princeton University. She was awarded a NATO Fellowship and completed additional studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 1978, she was hired as a researcher at Royal Dutch Shell in Amsterdam where she worked until 1988. After ten years, she[2] moved with Shell to England where she worked as a business development manager.[3] Later Coleman-Kammula transferred to both Belgium and Houston, Texas,[2] as the head of the epoxy resins unit[3] creating plastics.[4] In 2000, she left Shell and became a senior vice president at Basell Polyolefins, where she focused on asset management, innovation and strategic marketing.[2] She also served on the Board of Directors of Indelpro, a joint venture between Basell and Alfa in Mexico.[3]

In 2005, Coleman-Kammula left Bassell and founded Simply Sustain, a consulting firm aimed at advising businesses on more sustainable models.[5] After a trip to India around that time,[6] Coleman-Kammula realized that the plastics she had helped develop[7] were negatively impacting the environment because as an inventor and designer she had never considered what happened when the product was no longer usable and became waste.[8] She now consults with firms recommending that they supply the information of what is in their products and how to disassemble them, both as a means of protecting the environment and providing jobs in disposal and recycling.[9] She promotes "industrial ecology" and recommends that corporate entities make environmental impact assessments over the life cycle of products[10] as a means of increasing value of products and decreasing the negative impacts to the environment.[11] She works on the Sustainability External Advisory Council of Dow Chemical Company and with other corporate entities.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Seetha M. Coleman-Kammula". Find the Data. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Dr. Seetha Coleman-Kammula". Detroit, Michigan: Plastics News. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Seetha Coleman-Kammula, PhD". Spartanburg, South Carolina: International Recycling. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Hardman 2009, pp. 136-137.
  5. ↑ Hardman 2009, p. 106.
  6. ↑ Hardman 2009, p. 135.
  7. ↑ Hardman 2009, p. 122.
  8. ↑ Hardman 2009, p. 137.
  9. ↑ Dobransky, Megan. "What is a Producer’s Responsibility?". Colony, Texas: Earth 911. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "DSU to Host Guest Lecture Green Chemistry in Ag/Industry Jan. 23". Dover, Delaware: Delaware State University. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  11. ↑ Senge, et. al. 2008, p. 216.

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