Where experts answer twenty questions in thirty minutes about plastic, alternatives-to-plastic and all things circular. #3 Hair’s what’s happening! , Andrew and Zsofia Kollar – Founder of Human Material Loop – get into what is ‘waste’ and the benefits of hypo-allergic, strong as steel, climate-positive high-performance textiles from human hair! Listen on …
The Substitution Principle When an alternative material, substance or chemical becomes available it must be substituted. Substitution is costly and complex and will require incentives coupled with strict regulation. The United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA5) will meet in Nairobi on 28 February – 2 March 2022 to negotiate and agree on a new legally …
Global Plastics Treaty: One Principle we would like to see upheld Read More »
Here is what you can do instead. I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that the world’s plastic problem is at a critical level today. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age to the Steel Age, we delineate society’s epochs by their primary material for fabrication. Ours will most likely be called …
I’m an Environmental Scientist, and I Don’t Care If You Recycle Read More »
Covid-19, supply chain disruption, trade restrictions and new environmental regulatory enforcement have resulted in a wholesale re-evaluation of the true cost of using oil-based materials. Oil-based materials, including plastics, continue to dominate alternative materials mainly for reasons of cheap raw material supply; unrivalled global availability, and favourable regulatory factors. But times are changing: environmental impacts …
Oil-based v Postplastic materials – riding the market dynamic Read More »
World leaders at COP26 will be looking at ways to reduce CO2 emissions to achieve their net carbon zero commitments with ambitious pathways across power generation, transport, agriculture, homes and heavy industry. However, the manufacturing sector – and particularly plastics manufacturing – seems to have been ignored. The production of plastics currently accounts for approximately …
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a report last week which puts a figure on the true cost of plastic to society, the environment and the economy – a not-insignificant $3.7 trillion a year and rising. To give you a perspective on how large a sum that is, it’s approaching the annual GDP of Germany, …
The following article is a transcription of a conversation between Andrew Johnson, Communications Director at CirQulor, and Joseph Likens at Kynnex, a U.S. company specialising in product management and supply chain solutions. AJ: Joseph, thank you for joining me today. I’m going to dive right in, if I may, and ask you about the current …
Head-to-head: Overcoming barriers to sustainable manufacturing Read More »