Big Ideas

Michiel De Smet, Finance Programme Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Amcor's David Clark discuss the lack of awareness of finance's role in the circular economy, and how bankers and investors are driving a rapid uptake of circular models. The question is no longer if climate change matters to the financial sector, but how it will address it.

Joi Danielson, Co-Founder of Vital Ocean and Partner at SYSTEMIQ, is on the frontline of waste management. In this episode, Amcor's David Clark talks with Joi on working with governments to address the structural constraints to waste management systems, her free book 'Leave No Trace', and the five challenges to overcome to create real change.

John Caturano, Senior Sustainability Manager, Packaging and Programs at Nestle Waters NA, discusses 'designing for recycling' with Amcor's David Clark. Discover how well-designed packaging fits into the wider recycling infrastructure. Here's the article mentioned in the episode: https://www.tribpub.com/gdpr/courant.com/

Two billion people rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, with some cocoa farmers living on fewer than 70 cents a day. Amcor's David Clark and Fairtrade UK's Catherine David talk about how the Fairtrade Foundation builds more sustainable supply chains that are economically secure, fairly paid, and more dignified for people in them. They also talk about how products are certified by Fairtrade and how packaging plays a role.

Adrienna Zsakay, CEO at Circular Economy Asia, talks with Amcor's David Clark about how the Asian Plastics and Packaging Agreement (APPA) is working to achieve a more circular plastics and packaging system in the region. One way is by encouraging consumers to make more informed choices about recycling. Tune in to hear Adrienna and David discuss this and more.

Monetizing plastic waste is not only good for the environment but it also helps to facilitate social change. In this episode of Big Ideas, Amcor's David Clark speaks to David Katz, Founder, and CEO of Plastic Bank about how he is providing a way for people to escape poverty through plastic.

How can businesses realize the circular advantage? Amcor's David Clark speaks with Wesley Spindler, Business Strategy and Sustainability Senior Manager at Accenture and co-author of 'The Circular Economy Handbook' about competitive advantage and the circular economy.

In the 20th episode of the Big Ideas podcast series, Amcor's David Clark talks to Philippe Blank, Head of Packaging Sustainability at Henkel beauty care, about the company's recyclability evaluation tool, Easy D4R, and its "achieving more with less" Factor 3 sustainability strategy.

Scenario planning, a strategic planning method, is applied to climate change and discussed by Nardia Haigh, business strategist and associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts, and Amcor's David Clark. The focus on the potential impacts of climate change on businesses and how scenario planning can be applied to plastic waste are examined, as the pair discuss Haigh's new book on the subject.

In this special episode, Amcor's David Clark hosts a panel at the Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit about how we have all the tools to act now to stop plastic pollution if we work together. Panelists are Sander Defruyt, Lead, New Plastics Economy at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Kevin Rabinovitch, Global VP Sustainability at Mars and Allen Langdon, CEO at Encorp Pacific.