Join us for an impassioned conversation about the potential for recycling progress with David Katz, founder of Plastic Bank. He joined us earlier this year and returns to share an update about the company’s progress. Plastic Bank is a social enterprise that partners with consumer products companies to create incentive programs in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa that help […]
The future of modern life turns in large part on making the packaging and delivery of the food and products we buy more sustainable and, eventually, environmentally neutral or positive. Our guest today, Robert Lilienfeld, is the executive director of SPRING, the Sustainable Packaging Research, Information, and Networking Group, a Denver-based think tank that provides expert advice and commentary on […]
The UK took a huge step toward reducing its single-use plastic pollution. Starting in October 2023, a variety of single-use items such as plastic cutlery, plates, bowls, polystyrene cups, cotton swabs, and balloon sticks will be banned. Fines of up to 10% of the UK revenue generated by the business that distributes these items and prison time for repeat offenders […]
Christian Schiller, co-founder of cirplus, talks about the company’s digital marketplace for circular plastics. Think of it as Match.com or Tinder for European plastics recyclers, including companies that collect post-consumer materials and those that sell processed recycled plastic for use in new products. Cirplus connects sellers with buyers and collects fees for speeding the transaction along. Sellers save on marketing […]
After five years of crisis, from China’s declaration that it would not accept contaminated U.S. recyclables to the three-year disruption of normal life caused by the pandemic, recycling is showing signs of life. Investments in new facilities and recycling technology are producing results and the National Association of PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) reported in December that #1 (PET) plastic recycling […]
Join us for an impassioned conversation about the potential for recycling progress with David Katz, founder of Plastic Bank. He joined us earlier this year and returns to share an update about the company’s progress. Plastic Bank is a social enterprise that partners with consumer products companies to create incentive programs in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa that help […]
Did you know that recycling just one pound of plastic #1 (also labeled PET or PETE) saves 22.9 kilowatt-hours of energy and 47.4 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over producing the same amount of plastic from virgin materials? Plastic #1 may be best known for its use in the production of soda and water bottles, a common source of litter […]
Christian Schiller, cofounder of cirplus, talks about the company’s digital marketplace for circular plastics. Think of it as Match.com or Tinder for European plastics recyclers, including companies that collect post-consumer materials and those that sell processed recycled plastic for use in new products. Cirplus connects sellers with buyers and collects fees for speeding the transaction along. Sellers save on marketing […]
Leslie Adkins, vice president of marketing and ESG development at Trex, joins the conversation to discuss how the company pioneered a recycled alternative to lumber for decks, fences, and other applications. Trex was founded in 1996 on the premise that there must be a better use of the “mountain of single-use plastic film packaging generated every day that is not […]
Leslie Adkins, vice president of marketing and ESG development at Trex, joins the conversation to discuss how the company pioneered a recycled alternative to lumber for decks, fences, and other applications. Trex was founded in 1996 on the premise that there must be a better use of the “mountain of single-use plastic film packaging generated every day that is not […]