Ginger Cushing is a polymer scientist with decades of experience formulating water-based coatings for sustainable food, medical and industrial packaging. Alongside her consulting work, she speaks to local communities about the life of plastics and packaging after they’ve served their purpose.

• Teaching
  • Microplastics: What’s myth, what’s fact, and what you can do about them
  • Recycling and composting: the realities and practical ways to do both on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
• Industry and community service
  • Association of Roll-to-Roll Converters technical advisor and Chair of the Women’s Leadership Committee
  • Corsica River Conservancy board member
  • ShoreRivers Chester River Water Advisory board member
  • Hospice volunteer
• Selected advisory work
  • Open to a limited number of technical projects, mostly by referral