In this episode of the Plastics Revolution podcast, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Samantha Cross of Plastic Police and Cross Connections Consulting. Samantha spent most of her career helping companies reduce their waste as an employee of Brambles.  Then a few years ago, a combination of circumstances led her to start her own consulting company and a passion project she called Plastic Police to tackle soft plastic waste specifically. What started as a shipping container and one school has now evolved to a fully tested model with a scalable blueprint for businesses and organisations anywh ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Abigail Forsyth, the co-founder and managing director of KeepCup. Abigail and her brother were running a number of cafes in the Melbourne area when they recognised the amount of disposable coffee cups going through their business and ending up in landfill.  Even worse, they couldn’t believe that there wasn’t already a reusable alternative on the market. Ten years later, the KeepCup brand has become the generic term for a reusable coffee cup in many places. We hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Abi ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Stephen Webster of Integrated Recycling, an Australian manufacturer of recycled plastic products. In this show, we learn about the origins of the company and how it’s progressed from making posts from the recycled plastic film that was used to cover grapevines to a much greater variety of products now.  This includes their Duratrack railway sleepers and their “in-development” urban noise barriers – both that have the potential to use a huge amount of recycled plastic. We hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolut ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, Tammy Ven Dange chats with Chris Tangey of  Ecycle Solutions, an Australian recycler of e-waste and polystyrene.  Polystyrene has been a popular padding and packaging solution for a long time. However, because it’s really 98% air, it’s been the bugbear of the plastics recycling industry because it’s very difficult to transport it at a profitable rate. Chris and I talked about the value of this recyclable material and why they are able to provide this service when most other recyclers can’t. We hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Rebecca Prince-Ruiz of Plastic Free July.  Rebecca didn’t mean to start a global movement.  She just set a family challenge to reduce the amount of plastic that they were using in the month of July. Now with an estimated 250 million people involved in 177 countries, we talk about future as the organisation is about to celebrate their 10th anniversary. We hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Rebecca Prince-Ruiz. You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode on Tammy’s blog ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Michael Elias of MANRAGS, a men’s essential clothing line and textiles recycling service.  Michael was in banking industry when he and his wife, Tina, decided to sell socks through a subscription side-hustle. The business did so well that he eventually left his job to focus on it full time. Yet soon afterwards, Michael realised that his own business was adding to the landfill problem. This started the next phase of the business which they are undergoing now to close the loop on textile waste. We hope you enjoy this ep ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Paul Jenkins of ThePackHub, a packaging consulting firm based in Banbury, England.  In this show, we learn more about the sustainability trends that he’s seeing in theconsumer packaging space including newer trends that have been prompted recently by Covid-19.  This includes the changes that brands have had to make to online distribution models and hygiene concerns. We hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Paul Jenkins of ThePackHub. You can read the summary and see all of the links from this ep ..read more

Planet Stewardship In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Paul Klymenko of Planet Ark.  Paul started his career in finance before realising that the only way that he could reduce his stress about environmental concerns was to create solutions for it. And so he did so as a co-founder and now the CEO of this environmental behaviour change organisation. In this show, we talk about how it started, their current campaigns, issues impacting the environment right now, as well as their latest program to be announced, the National Circular Economy Hub and Marketpla ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats again with Damien Clarke and Martin Brooks from Green Caffeen to get an update on their reusable coffee cup program during this Covid-19 crisis. In this show we talk about the safety of using their program, how its been impacted during this time, as well as how you can help out your favourite cafes save money. You can read the summary of this episode on Tammy’s blog. Credits Hosted by Tammy Ven Dange Produced by Jonny Puskas Theme Music by Joseph McDade All Rights Reserved 2020   ..read more

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, we have a very special show during the Covid-19 crisis. It’s clear that businesses have been impacted in various ways – some for the better, but many for the worse. The recycled plastics industry is really one of those that is hurting right now – not because of the lack of materials. Host Tammy Ven Dange presents three new challenges for the recycled plastic industry and discusses how you can make a difference as a consumer by buying more products made from recycled plastic. And in this special video episode, we want to introduce you to three businesses ..read more