Rafaela Craizer is an accomplished environmental engineer with degrees from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Macquarie University, Sydney. She began her career in landfill assessment and stability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2012, she pursued a master’s degree at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and in 2013, she contributed to solid waste management initiatives in Tunisia for the German Development Agency (GIZ).
In 2014, Ms. Craizer joined ALBA Group, Germany’s second-largest recycling Rafaela Craizer company, where she gained hands-on experience working in state-of-the-art treatment facilities across Germany. Her expertise also expanded globally, with significant projects in Asia, the Middle East, and Spain, focusing on plastics, municipal solid waste, WEEE, and hazardous waste.
Since 2018, Ms. Craizer has balanced her time between Latin America, Africa, and Germany, leading the consulting team at BlackForest Solutions GmbH and coordinating waste treatment projects across these regions. Currently, she serves as the company’s Technical Director, focusing on e-waste and plastic waste strategies, implementing recycling units, and developing policies related to financial instruments.
In 2021, she founded ReverseLab, a decentralized plastic recycling plant located in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. This initiative, supported by BlackForest Solutions, evolved into a larger project funded by the German Environmental Ministry, where she now leads efforts to build boats using recycled plastic waste.
