A sustainable food packaging podcast featuring plastic alternatives 

Plastics Toxicity and Greenwashing

Learn about microplastic toxicity and takeaways from one of the best documentaries that we have found in the space on how recycling has been used as greenwashing…

Lifecycle Assessments, BPA linings, & what Tetra Pak doesn’t want you to know

How sustainable are Tetra packs, aluminum cans, and glass jars? How are corporates using hidden greenwashing tactics? What does a circular economy of packaging look like?

Algae-based, Edible packaging: Notpla revolutionizes coating and films with a home-compostable solution

The power of seaweed – are algae the source of the packaging of the future? Apart from the material: how important are sustainable adhesives, coatings, and inks? and how the innovative packaging startup Notpla inspires lots of consumers and companies through their edible packaging solutions.

Plastic Bank: Giving plastic waste a worth – how recycling can address poverty 

Plastic Bank enables people to collect plastic and earn money with it, so they can lift themselves out of poverty. The Plastic Bank is an eco-system that provides an opportunity for the world to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. 

Ocean plastic: How the World Economic Forum works with governments, corporates & innovators to tackle plastic waste

Kristin offers us a broader, systemic view, giving us an insight into how the World Economic Forum works with governments on this issue, for example in Indonesia. We discuss how plastics end up in the ocean, who is to blame and what we should do about it.

We need compostable plastics and industrial composting – Part 2

Is there a scalable solution to our plastic problem at all? Now obviously a global problem requires a range of approaches. BUT This interview with Ramani Nayaran was a refreshing breeze of hope. We discuss why industrial composting is crucial and inevitable and look further into the potential of compostable plastics.