Plastics Revolution with Tammy Ven Dange
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Mother Nature has a plastics problem. This podcast isn’t about the problem though. It’s about the solutions. In each episode, host and entrepreneur, Tammy Ven Dange chats with the innovators, change makers and fellow entrepreneurs who are leading the plastics revolution. Each of them has created a business solution to reduce the negative impacts of plastic pollution to the environment. In their stories, they’ll answer questions about what prompted them to start their businesses or organisations. How did they fund it? What challenges have they faced? And what impact do they want to make? Along the way, we’ll also share tips and ideas so that you too can join the plastics revolution. Check out the full transcripts at plasticsrevolution.com or on Tammy’s blog page, tvendange.com. Hosted by Tammy Ven Dange Produced by Jonny Puskas Theme Music by Joseph McDade All Rights Reserved 2019
Location:
Australia
Description:
Mother Nature has a plastics problem. This podcast isn’t about the problem though. It’s about the solutions. In each episode, host and entrepreneur, Tammy Ven Dange chats with the innovators, change makers and fellow entrepreneurs who are leading the plastics revolution. Each of them has created a business solution to reduce the negative impacts of plastic pollution to the environment. In their stories, they’ll answer questions about what prompted them to start their businesses or organisations. How did they fund it? What challenges have they faced? And what impact do they want to make? Along the way, we’ll also share tips and ideas so that you too can join the plastics revolution. Check out the full transcripts at plasticsrevolution.com or on Tammy’s blog page, tvendange.com. Hosted by Tammy Ven Dange Produced by Jonny Puskas Theme Music by Joseph McDade All Rights Reserved 2019
Twitter:
@tvendange
Language:
English
Website:
https://tvendange.com/podcast
Episodes
Samantha Cross of Plastic Police
9/15/2020
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...
Duration:00:41:25
Abigail Forsyth of KeepCup
8/26/2020
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...
Duration:00:39:17
Stephen Webster of Integrated Recycling
8/11/2020
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...
Duration:00:46:04
Chris Tangey of Ecycle Solutions:
6/23/2020
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...
Duration:00:33:16
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz of Plastic Free July
6/16/2020
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...
Duration:00:50:08
Michael Elias of MANRAGS
6/9/2020
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...
Duration:00:50:11
Paul Jenkins of ThePackHub
6/2/2020
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...
Duration:00:38:36
Paul Klymenko of Planet Ark
5/26/2020
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...
Duration:00:51:41
Green Caffeen Update
5/19/2020
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...
Duration:00:41:11
#30 - Special Episode
5/12/2020
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...
Duration:00:08:58
Nev Hyman of NevHouse
5/5/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Nev Hyman of NevHouse. Nev started his career shaping surfboards for the world’s best surfers. Along the way, he even sold a company to famous professional surfer, Kelly Slater.
So, how did this surfboard maker get into building homes from recycled plastic? That’s exactly what we talk about in this show, as well as, Nev’s future plans.
You can read the highlights of this episode on Tammy’s blog with quotes and further...
Duration:00:45:23
Simon van Leuven of Vanden Recycling:
4/21/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Simon van Leuven of Vanden Recycling.
Founded in 2005, Vanden Recycling has been buying and selling recycled plastic material around the world.
We talk about how Vanden manages their quality processes, as well as the challenges of exporting materials since the China Sword policy was enacted in 2018. We also talk about how the company is being impacted now with the Covid-19 crisis.
We hope you enjoy this episode of...
Duration:00:46:28
Jon Williams of Alliance Paper:
4/14/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, Tammy Ven Dange chats with Jon Williams of Alliance Paper, a manufacturer of various paper products and a distributor of food-grade bio-packaging material.
Jon’s been in the printing industry all his life, and in recent years, he’s driven the business’s focus on creating better products from both an environmental and health perspective. We’d talk about the business, his thoughts about the paper industry and even the impact of the current Covid-19...
Duration:00:45:48
Teresa Aylott of Little Green Panda:
4/7/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Teresa Aylott of Little Green Panda. Teresa started a company in 2018 to sell drinking straws made of a wheat waste product.
The demand boomed as the hospitality industry decided to move away from plastic straws. And then last year, Teresa decided to merge with another liked-minded company creating the Little Green Panda we see today.
Together with her business partners, she’s reducing plastic waste, one straw at a...
Duration:00:26:15
Heidi Taylor of Tangaroa Blue:
3/31/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Heidi Taylor of Tangaroa Blue, a charity that focusses on cleaning up ocean waste and capturing the related data.
Since 2004, Tangaroa Blue have captured nearly 16 million data points. And with that information, they have been able to provide the evidence that’s often required to drive changes for legislation, as well as business practices - all to reduce the waste that they are finding on beaches around Australia.
I...
Duration:00:32:37
Ryan Swenson of Officeworks
3/24/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Ryan Swenson, the Head of Sustainable Development at Officeworks.
Five years ago, Officeworks created its first long-term sustainability strategy with the ultimate goal of sending zero waste to landfill. While overall operational waste has increased during this time, they’ve slashed the amount they send to landfill by nearly half and are now recycling 82% of their waste – providing a great case study for other...
Duration:00:34:23
Barbara Matthews of Recycled Recreation:
3/17/2020
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Barbara Matthews of Recycled Recreation based in Hobart, Tasmania and their newest store in Canberra, Australia. Barbara and her husband, Rex owned an indoor climbing business when they recognised a need to help parents rehome their children’s climbing shoes as they grew out of them.
Today, they have two retail shops that buy and sell outdoor clothing and gear. And from that, they’ve increased the useful life of these...
Duration:00:50:45
National Plastics Summit
3/10/2020
Thoughts from the 2 March 2020 Event
In this episode of Plastics Revolution, we’re doing something a little bit different. Last week, host Tammy Ven Dange was at the National Plastics Summit at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia.
This event was sponsored by the Australian Government and the invite said (paraphrased) “this Summit seeks to accelerate solutions to the proliferation of plastic waste, and activate the actions agreed to by states and territories last year in the...
Duration:00:19:41
Rob Pascoe of Closed Loop - Part 2
3/3/2020
In this second episode of a 2 part series of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange continues to chat with Rob Pascoe of Closed Loop Environmental Solutions. They talk about his newest circular solution for local councils. We also learn more about his passion for solving food waste issues too.
We hope you enjoy this 2nd part episode of Plastics Revolution with Rob Pascoe of Closed Loop
You can read the full transcript at https://tvendange.com/podcast
Companies, Organisations and...
Duration:00:30:18
Rob Pascoe of Closed Loop - Part 1
2/25/2020
In this first episode of a 2-part series of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Rob Pascoe of Closed Loop Environmental Solutions headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Long before recycling was mainstream, Rob created circular solutions for the likes of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Qantas.
In this first part, we talk about his business and how he managed to scale so quickly to support his large clients by creating an ecosystem with other businesses.
We hope you enjoy this...
Duration:00:27:13