Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable.

We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO.

Speakers:

Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO

Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO

Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition

Links:

Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/

GIC: https://globalimpactcoalition.com/

TNO: https://www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/2023/05/hub-plastic-waste-world-economic-forum/

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