The search continues for influential figures putting the PET polymers industry on a regenerative path and bringing solutions together for the systemic issues surrounding plastic.
Building on the success of PET Heroes 2023, adaPETation®, has launched a second global search for the next group of people putting PET plastic on a regenerative path.
PET Heroes 2024 will identify and showcase the talented startups, students and life-mimicking organizations working to close the loop on plastic waste by providing them with regenerative insights, business training, communications support, networking opportunities and the chance to receive funding and visibility for their regenerative ideas.
adaPETation®, the first regenerative network within the plastic industry that seeks, promotes and powers the best solutions to the systemic issues surrounding plastics, was founded by Evertis & Selenis in 2022.
This year, the network will bring together a new team of partners and an expert panel of judges from the industry and beyond to choose 12 candidates to compete for the second version of the annual award.
The winner will receive non-dilutive funding and the opportunity to work with other members of the adaPETation® network to develop their prototype, business idea or regenerative venture in 2024.
Last year’s winner, Helena Navarro received €10,000 of non-dilutive funding to assist with the work of the Pablo Horstmann Pediatric Hospital in Lamu, Kenya.
As well as the eventual winner, last year’s competition included a socially-conscious startup converting plastic waste into fuel used to o restore coral reefs in the gulf of Mexico, a talented Spanish designer empowering indigenous women around the world with designs on closing the loop on plastic waste, and a young design student that wants to use plastic bottles to save lives in Bangladesh.
Other finalists included an art gallery / design store, giving PET a beautiful second life in Bali, a social entrepreneur making public toilets from PET in India, eco-fashion designers from Portugal converting ocean waste into designer shoes and a plastic-offsetting first from Thailand.
NOMINATE YOUR PET HERO
If you know someone that you think should be celebrated for their work calls for nominations are now open and adaPETation® is receiving suggestions.
Central to the award’s success is showcasing the importance of PET in ecosystem restoration and encouraging examples of the kind of regenerative design that will be needed to close the loop on plastic waste.
If you have a possible PET Hero then please nominate them for the award by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page.
The general public will be invited to vote to choose the second winner of the award from the final shortlist of 12 nominees in April 2024.
THE PRIZE
The founding members of adaPETation®, Evertis & Selenis, working with partners from the industry and beyond, will be announcing full details of next year’s prize later in the year. If you are interested in helping expand the impact of the award and would like to participate in this year’s award please contact us on: [email protected].
About adaPETation®
The adaPETation® network was founded in June 2022, to become the first regenerative network within the polymers industry that seeks, promotes and powers the best solutions to the systemic issues surrounding plastics.
A think tank with a focus on making sense of our interdependence on plastic, it aims to bring together the most intelligent nature-based solutions that will help steer the polymers industry towards a regenerative path.
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Last Year's Finalists
THE HISTORY OF PLASTIC
Throughout the history of plastic, PET has been crucial in keeping food fresh with lightweight and durable packaging solutions that have helped reduce food waste for almost a century. Learn all about the invention of plastic and the important role it has played feeding people and saving the lives of humans and elephants in the adaPETation® timeline of the history of plastic.
