Group Lead, Ved Krishna
How is it possible after everything Sian talked about in part 1 – that the plastic crisis could be a gift? You’ll have to listen to A Plastic Planet & PlasticFree.com CEO Sian Sutherland in part 2 of her conversation with Ved to find out. You’ll also hear all of her companies beliefs and why they a
0:00 – fuels the material of plastic so it is it is the climate...
hello hello I’m so happy to have Shan Sutherland back for a followup or a evolving conversation because we clearly didn’t cover enough Crown last time Sean thank you so much for taking the time and joining me again that is such a pleasure B really lovely to see you again great so we covered a lot uh about your journey about uh your funky escapades
10:00 – built environment the number one is packaging number two is built environment...
little sachets the trillion sachet we pump out every year even if we could recycle it even if there was an infrastructure even if we doubled Global Recycling from 9% to 18% then what’s happening with those chemicals because those chemicals are the major problem because as as you recycle you do not those they don’t disappear you compound those chemi
21:00 – brands that use it and we have standardized packaging across competitive Brands...
that is going to look in most bins and say oh check out all that resource in there because it’s contaminated with food it’s broken it’s designed for single use so we will never consider waste or something at the end of our personal useful life for it we will never consider anything other than waste unless it’s been designed differently at the begin
32:00 – focused on working with industry so you know bringing solutions to industry...
is so inevitable we we believe that we can have infinite growth on a planet of finite resources there is one planet one ocean it regenerates itself unbelievably it regenerates itself but at the moment we are taking 1.7 planets worth of resource every single year so we are literally taking the resources that are our children are entitled to we’re ta
43:00 – Plastics are vital to stop food waste these Plastics are vital to...
they don’t have a skin kind kind of shift in part so that was a challenge and we still working on that and hopefully uh getting a solution to them at that scale but that’s the that’s the reverse kind of challenge they face and when we are introducing products you’re so right it’s so much easier to work with Nimble smaller companies and get the prod
54:00 – brand the plastic but then every shop is still still has plastic...
is it will be legally binding it also doesn’t need every single member state to agree which you normally need for any kind of UN treaty so it’s now been agreed that perhaps it can be less than 100% because there will always be member states perhaps Saudi um who do not want to see any kind of plastic treaty in place and they will vote against it wha
65:00 – Innovation and then the brand the company I referred to earlier nfw...
everybody together some two months ago um in the Vatican to talk about what does it mean to be human so to redefine the human code and I found this really interesting to see um that that you’ve got somebody like Pope Francis and whatever your opinion is of the Catholic church I think people are pretty unanimous that this is a very unusual Pope and
76:00 – Gateway of plastic to really communicate more about the climate crisis in...
accelerate solving some of some of our most pentious problems the sachche for sure that’s the one that drives me not you know I I forget the number I think it’s something like we produce enough tiny little plastic sachet every single year that can go 16 times to the moon and back where do we think they all go so like yourselves we’ve been very invo
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