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Plastic. Climate. Future.

Mat Wielopolski & John Sewell

Plastic. Climate. Future. enables engagement among industry members, climate activists, innovators, and the rest of world (the general public) to ultimately achieve positive changes related to plastic and the climate. In their podcast, Mat & John host guests from these groups of stakeholders and talk about their views, activities and opinions to foster trustful communication and learn from each other. Check out more at www.plasticclimatefuture.com

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00:43:46

Biopolymers: How to scale them up? - with Brad...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2023/02/13

"If we have biodegradable and naturally-sourced plastics, why are we still struggling with plastic waste?”Join our discussion with Brad Rodgers, the Vice President of Danimer Scientific. Danimer Scientific is a biotechnology company that works towards transitioning fossil-based plastics to biopolymers, particularly, specializing in PHA-based materials. Biopolymers, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), are naturally-sourced and biodegradable plastic materials. It's one of the solutions to tackle our

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01:02:42

A Key Puzzle Piece to a Circular Future - with Mesbah...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2023/01/22

On our first 2023 episode, we invited 2 experts, Mesbah Sabur and Phil Brown from Circularise. We had an inspiring discussion about supply chain, product traceability, transparency and collaboration between companies. Importantly, we dived deep into the talk about industrial challenges, and how Circularise helps to solve this problem through its blockchain technology. Check out more about Circularise at https://www.circularise.com/Stay updated with us through our LinkedIn and InstagramIf you enjoy

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00:40:31

Into the Plastic. Climate. Future 2023 - with Sam...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2023/01/04

Literally one day before Christmas, we came together as the entire team, meaning Saskia, John and Mat, to give some quick thoughts about the best and most interesting episodes of 2022. We also prepared our wishlist of topics and guests for next year and... Yes, we actually managed to get three of our former guests from previous episodes to conclude this year with us. Kidus Asfaw told us how Kubik will continue being driven by purpose to tackle plastic waste, create new opportunities for women and

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00:43:42

Using the power of plants to make plastics...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/12/10

Jason Robinson is a chemical engineer, born innovator and technology lover, who has been involved in the climate-tech field ever since his early career. He is also the CEO of Evoco, a cleantech innovation company based in Canada, that produces plant-based chemistry to replace petrol-based chemistry. The company's mission focuses on closing the carbon cycle in the most natural way, not only by using materials from plants, but also ensuring them to be compostable. In this podcast, you will also learn

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00:38:49

The Plastic Soup Surfer - Driving systemic change...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/11/28

Merijn Tinga - also known as the "Plastic Soup Surfer", is a biologist, former teacher, surfer and activist from the Netherlands. He turned his passion for surfing into a strong voice for a more sustainable future with plastics. To make his point he started building surfboards from plastic waste and surfed them throughout the many trips that lead him to drive systemic change. Find out more about The Plastic Soup Surfer at https://www.plasticsoupsurfer.org/Stay updated with us through our LinkedIn

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00:36:42

A Special Episode: Highlights of the CRE Annual...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/11/15

On the 13-14th of October, for the first time the entire PCF Team attended the Annual Conference of Chemical Recycling Europe (CRE), which was focusing on the Circular Economy and how to achieve circularity with plastics. In this episode, we interviewed some of the guests: Maëlys Makotta from EuPC; Jasper Munier from Clariter; Jan Hommen and Laszlo Szekely from TOMRA; Phil Brown from Circularise; Fabian Loske from Sphera, and Adela Putinelu from Plastic Energy. We asked them about the insights,

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00:26:10

How can we transform the plastic value chain? With...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/11/06

Despite known for having a “bad” reputation in society, plastic is and will continue being part of our daily lives and economy. Hence, it is important to find sustainable strategies for avoiding the negative consequences and still being able to profit from the benefits of plastics.In this podcast episode, we had the amazing opportunity to speak to Virginia Janssens who is the managing director of Plastics Europe. As an association, they focus on advocacy, regulation, technical expertise, and also

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00:36:42

Rethink - Recycling: Chemical recycling made simple...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/10/16

Have you wondered how to recycle dirty plastic packaging? Meet Samantha, an aspiring organic chemist who is also the co-founder of a start-up company that depolymerizes plastics, DePoly. Together with two other PhD students, they combined their different expertise to develop sustainable and simple solutions for PET recycling.We also talked about chemical recycling, the current bottlenecks, and how their chemical recycling method differs from other processesFind out more about DePoly:

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00:39:20

An African start-up transforming plastic waste into...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/10/01

Have you thought of converting plastic waste into affordable building materials? In this podcast, we invited Kidus, the CEO and Co-founder of a Nairobi-Based start-up that creates building materials from plastic, KUBIK, Inc. As a son of Ethiopia, Kidus tells us how his memorable childhood experiences got slowly disrupted by the adverse effects of urbanization, which motivated him to act and look into ways how to valorize plastic waste.KUBIK’s mission is grounded in transforming society by taking

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00:44:06

Launching an algae plastic start-up from the kitchen...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/09/10

Imagine yourself launching a biobased plastic start-up company by starting the experiment from your own kitchen, isn’t it cool?Jessica Farda is the co-founder of Noriware. Her fascination for algae-based materials was born when she went to Mexico for vacation and saw a lot of algae on the beach. Then, it develops into an idea to create an algae-based packaging material and made her learn about its potential as a sustainable and circular material resource.Without any scientific background in

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00:44:06

From Passion to Mission for the Jordanian Marine Life...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/08/28

They saw the plastic waste in the Jordanian sea increasing, and did not only stay silent..In this episode, we have our first guest from the Middle East, Beisan AlSharif.Beisan is a marine enthusiast with a passion for diving and the environment. During the pandemic, she found a traumatizing amount of waste underwater caused by the skyrocketing plastic usage. This then led her to co-found Project Sea, to extend her passionfor scuba diving.Project Sea aims to change the culture of littering and waste

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00:44:06

Mimicking Nature: Sustainable honeycombs and sandwich...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/08/11

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00:58:07

How to design polymers and composites for a circular...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/07/31

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00:58:07

How Data Drives The Circular Economy with Andrea...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/07/10

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00:58:07

Using Enzymes to Biodegrade Plastics with Andrii from...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/06/24

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Breaking The Recycling Confusion Problem with Evan...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/06/04

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A project with a Purpose to Clean Up The Planet with...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/05/23

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00:58:07

A Journey to Enable Circularity with Jan Hommen from...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/05/12

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00:58:07

Closing the recycling loop using Reverse Logistics...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/04/24

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00:58:07

Upcycling Plastic Waste: How is it Possible? - with...

Plastic. Climate. Future. ·

2022/04/10

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