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Sustainability Speaking is a podcast where innovators, policymakers, academicians, and scientists discuss how we can make sustainable change to protect our oceans and environment.

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Episode 46:

Plastics Policy: Pivotal Moments in 2024

Featuring: Ross Eisenberg, President, America's Plastic Makers, American Chemistry Council

Ross Eisenberg, president of America’s Plastic Makers®, tackles bold solutions to modernize recycling and reduce waste… and he’s looking for dance partners.

Episode 45:

Building Prosthetics with Hands of Gratitude

Featuring: Matt Campana, CEO, Hands of Gratitude and Gina Oliver, Senior Director, Automotive, American Chemistry Council

Coming together to transform lives. On this special episode of Sustainably Speaking we’ll hear from Matt Campana, CEO of Hands of Gratitude, on how his organization brings people together to assemble prosthetic hands for people in need around the world.

Episode 44:

Recycling Electronics

Featuring: Cody Oliver, Senior Director, Sustainable Solutions at evTerra

While electronics devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives, Cody Oliver is working to make recycling these devices just as common. On this episode, we’ll hear more about how the plastic in our electronics is being diverted from landfills and repurposed into new materials.

Episode 43:

(Un)Covering the Global Recycling Industry Part 2

Featuring: Adam Minter, Author & Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Paper or plastic? It turns out the answer is not so black and white. In the second episode of our two-part series, Adam Minter, award-winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books on global recycling, dives into this great sustainability debate.

Episode 42:

(Un)Covering the Global Recycling Industry Part 1

Featuring: Adam Minter, Author & Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

In the first installment of our two-part episode on Sustainably Speaking, author and Bloomberg columnist Adam Minter shares his remarkable journey–from working in his family’s scrap yard to becoming an award-winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books uncovering details about the world’s waste industry. In this episode, hear Adam discuss his global adventures in recycling and his mission to get the facts out.

Episode 41:

New Recycling Technology

Featuring: Brian Schmatz, Senior Manager Business Development and Sales North America at TrinamiX

Technology is primed to make the recycling industry more efficient and sustainable than ever before. In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Brian Schmatz, a chemist and inventor at BASF subsidiary TrinamiX, shows us the innovative technology he’s developed to enhance the recycling industry.

Episode 40:

Austin’s Path to Zero Waste

Featuring: Maddie Morgan, Circular Economy Program Manager for the City of Austin

Austin’s reputation for innovation is inspiring its approach to sustainability and circularity. In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Maddie Morgan, Austin’s Circular Economy Program Manager shares how the city is engaging with businesses, entrepreneurs, tech leaders, and everyday Austinites to promote sustainability in their thriving city.

Episode 39:

Unpacking U.S. Recycling

Featuring: Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership

Explore the fascinating journey of Keefe Harrison from a college job to CEO of The Recycling Partnership on Sustainably Speaking. Hear her advice on joining the recycling movement, myths and facts about plastic recycling, and how you can contribute to a circular economy for a better planet.

Episode 38:

The Technology Creating Value from Used Plastic

Featuring: Jeremy DeBenedictis, President, Alterra

Jeremy DeBenedictis shares an inspiring story about what it takes to become an environmental entrepreneur. As President of Alterra, Jeremy leads and mentors his team which has developed an innovative technology to help keep used plastics out of landfills through advanced recycling.

Episode 37:

Why We Need to Study Microplastics

Featuring: Dr. Jeanne Hankett, Sustainability Lead in the Corporate Analytical & Material Science Department at BASF

In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, host Mia Quinn explores the critical role that science is playing when it comes to identifying solutions for microplastics pollution.

Episode 36:

The Urgency of Now: Advocating for Plastics Recycling & Sustainability

Featuring: Ross Eisenberg, president of America's Plastic Makers® at the American Chemistry Council

In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Ross Eisenberg, president of America's Plastic Makers® at the American Chemistry Council, discusses his journey in advocating for sustainable solutions, current priorities, and policy implementation challenges.

Episode 35:

Energy Efficient Building Innovations

Featuring: Heidi Kujawa, CEO, ByFusion and Jordan Goldman, Engineering Principal, ZeroEnergy Design

"We've developed a solution that takes landfill or ocean bound plastic and tried to convert it into something that is usable to help solve for some of the challenges that we're seeing in the construction industry."

Podcasts

Listen On

Episode 46:

Plastics Policy: Pivotal Moments in 2024

Featuring: Ross Eisenberg, President, America's Plastic Makers, American Chemistry Council

Episode 45:

Building Prosthetics with Hands of Gratitude

Featuring: Matt Campana, CEO, Hands of Gratitude and Gina Oliver, Senior Director, Automotive, American Chemistry Council

Episode 44:

Recycling Electronics

Featuring: Cody Oliver, Senior Director, Sustainable Solutions at evTerra

Episode 43:

(Un)Covering the Global Recycling Industry Part 2

Featuring: Adam Minter, Author & Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Episode 42:

(Un)Covering the Global Recycling Industry Part 1

Featuring: Adam Minter, Author & Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Episode 41:

New Recycling Technology

Featuring: Brian Schmatz, Senior Manager Business Development and Sales North America at TrinamiX

Episode 40:

Austin’s Path to Zero Waste

Featuring: Maddie Morgan, Circular Economy Program Manager for the City of Austin

Episode 39:

Unpacking U.S. Recycling

Featuring: Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership

Episode 38:

The Technology Creating Value from Used Plastic

Featuring: Jeremy DeBenedictis, President, Alterra

Episode 37:

Why We Need to Study Microplastics

Featuring: Dr. Jeanne Hankett, Sustainability Lead in the Corporate Analytical & Material Science Department at BASF

Episode 36:

The Urgency of Now: Advocating for Plastics Recycling & Sustainability

Featuring: Ross Eisenberg, president of America's Plastic Makers® at the American Chemistry Council

Episode 35:

Energy Efficient Building Innovations

Featuring: Heidi Kujawa, CEO, ByFusion and Jordan Goldman, Engineering Principal, ZeroEnergy Design

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