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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INNOVATION
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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Applying Biomimicry in the PET Industry
Marta Matos Gil tells us about bringing the PET industry together to co-engineer solutions that put nature back in the center of systems thinking.
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Looking to Nature for Innovative Solutions
Bioplastics, biodegradable packaging and other nature-based solutions, offer enormous potential for reducing the industry’s reliance on virgin fossil fuel feedstocks. But not without its challenges.
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A Waste-Free World
Moving from a “take-make-waste” economic model to a circular world of infinite abundance, a world free of waste is closer than we think.
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Closing the Loop
From take-make-dispose to a re-cyclical model, PET holds the key to reaching the world’s recycling goals. The world has had a logo for recycling since 1970, when student Gary Anderson won a competition to design a symbol with his easily recognisable Mobius loop. Sponsored by the Container Corporation of America, it was hoped that the
A Solutions Network
Identifying the challenges that need to be overcome in the journey towards a world free of waste One of the highlights of the seismic shift in people’s attitudes towards plastic, and sustainability in general, in the last five years has been the response from brands, entrepreneurs and activists re-thinking the plastics industry. The New Plastics Economy
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Gen Z to the Rescue
There’s no going back for brands that want to win over the next generation of movers and shakers. Consumers have never wielded as much power as they do in the digital age, and the next generation of consumers are conscious of this influence more than any other before them. Almost born with a smart phone
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We Can Do a Lot in 5 minutes!
AdaPETation talks to Costa Rican film-maker Mauricio Cortes and environmental activist and former diplomat to the United Nations, Carolina Sevilla about 5 Minute Beach Clean Ups and educating the next generation on their plastic consumption. Mauricio Cortes and Carolina Sevilla are on a mission to not only clean up the beaches of Costa Rica (and
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Talking to Erika Erickson
NREL is a national lab that is supported by the Department of Energy in the United States and my team works on lots of different things but I’m part of the group working on turning waste materials into more valuable compounds so whether that is energy, some parts of NREL are focused on renewable energy
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