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.
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Global Plastic Regulations
The world has signed up to end plastic waste, but how do we realistically achieve this? Which countries are driving changes in the regulatory framework for the industry and how can we all make sense of this rapidly changing space?
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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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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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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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An End to Trash Talking
Why it’s time to take the blame out of the plastics game and move towards whole systems thinking A blame game between environmental activists, plastics producers and consumers has dominated the conversation surrounding the material and the environmental costs of its misuse. This difficult discussion has for almost four decades frustrated the search for an
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The Blue Planet Effect
Sir David Attenborough sticks the plastic knife into single use plastics and the world wakes up to the problem. *Portrait of Sir David Attenborough in 1984. Image by Neville Marriner/Daily Mail/Shutterstock. It took two people with a profound relationship with the oceans to wake the world up to our irresponsible behaviour unhealthy relationship with plastic.
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Setting Sail on a New Course
How the Ellen MacArthur Foundation & the New Plastics Economy changed the conversation taking place around plastic waste and packaging. In 2005, the year that Ellen MacArthur broke the world record for sailing non-stop around the world single-handedly, there were 263 million tonnes of plastic being produced each year with less than 10% of that
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