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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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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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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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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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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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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AdaPETation talks to Mark Minneboo of Plastic Oceans International about a solutions revolution that’s filling him with optimism and hope for a circular future. It is estimated that more than 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, that’s the equivalent of one garbage truck a second being tipped into the
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