Professional Documents
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Founder + CEO
Director
Plastic +
Environment
Basics
Plastic Essential – Plastic Pollution Harmful
Generation Growth
The Chasm
Recovery Growth
Macao
North Atlantic - South Atlantic – Indian Ocean – North Pacific – South Pacific
Gyres
Recyclable (Brand) Vs Recyclable (Waste Mgt)
• is collected for recycling
• has market value / legislatively mandated program
• is sorted and aggregated into defined streams for recycling
• must be able to be processed and reclaimed or recycled with a
commercial recycling process and it must become a raw
material that is used in the production of a new product.
Reuse Make
Collect
It’s a Flawed Vicious Circle!
Research + Formulation
• 2016 – 2017: interviewed >150
companies across the value chain - to
develop Australia’s Packaging
Sustainability Vision and Strategy.
B
A Design uses recovered
2nd-life
market demand content creating more
drives design and 2nd-life markets
recovery efforts
Opportunity Challenge
• There is a market for recovered • Current labour practices in
plastic + it’s growing some countries
• Mass recovery models need tech • Infrastructure for the last mile
enhancements to deliver
• Investors / competitor inertia
• Asia, with ample labour wanting
income and low infrastructure, can
pick from the best – high value, low
volume decentralised / high volume,
maximised yield centralised
• Rio+20 Earth Summit, Hong Kong, New
York, Portugal, Shanghai, London, Dallas,
Los Angeles, Sydney - Kuala Lumpur 25 Oct
www.ThePlasticsCircle.com www.Plasticity.Global