Life-Mimicking Organizations
If the PET polymer industry is to find its way towards a regenerative path it will be life-mimicking organizations that help take it there.
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INNOVATION
Nested Systems
Regenerative thinking requires us to look at nesting systems within others to ensure that we restore balance between them. To ensure they are healthy each system should aim to be reciprocal to the others.
Interdependence and the Plastic Paradox
Clearly we have a problem with plastic waste but until we can fully understand the systemic issue surrounding the material we will struggle to find a solution – not to our dependence on plastic – but to our interdependence with the material.
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Giving Plastic a Second Life with a Plastic Offsetting First
Social entrepreneur Tristan Lecomte’s pioneering plastic offsetting initiative in Thailand, Second Life, has opened the gates for beach cleanup operations in the countries worst affected by plastic waste.
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People, Planet, Place, PET
In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the focus needs to shift to how industry and societies can help regenerate some of the world’s most fragile ecosystems and how PET polymers can do more to support people and the planet.
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PET Lamp Closing the Loop on PET Plastic
PET Lamp and Plastic Rivers starting an important discussion with plastic producers, collectors, recyclers, designers and consumers about a common goal: closing the PET plastic loop.
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Top Trends in Sustainable Packaging
The packaging innovations that promise to reduce the industry’s contribution to global warming and clean up the planet.
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Advanced Recycling for the Future
Full circularity appears to be on the horizon but what can we expect from the more advanced recycling technologies?
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Making Sense of Sustainable Packaging
SPRING Founder, Robert Lilienfeld, on his mission to make sense of the complex array of sustainable packaging options promising to save the world.
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Slow Fashion Heroes Out to Save the Oceans
Turning waste into unique pieces of footwear with the help of an army of slow fashion “heroes”, the Portugal-based startup, Skizo, is giving PET bottles and fishing nets a glorious second life far from the ocean
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