Plastics Revolution with Tammy Ven Dange

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 Abigail Forsyth of KeepCup.

You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode on Tammy's blog.

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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 Revolution with Stephen Webster of Integrated Recycling.

You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode on Tammy's blog.

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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.

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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 episode on Tammy's blog.

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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.

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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 based in Australia that you can support by doing just that.

They include:

Anipal Plastic Forests Recycled Mats

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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 information.

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• 0:00 | Intro
• 00 | How did Nev go from surfer to entrepreneur?
• 03 | Nev packs up and decides to move to the east coast of Australia where some of the biggest surfing events were held and where he starts his next surfboard shaping company called Nev Future Shapes.
• 7:38 | Can you take the "soul" of a surfboard if it's not made by hand? The creation of Firewire with the help of computer aided design technology, and what does famous surfer Kelly Slater have to do with it now?
• 10:20 | Nev returns to the Future Shape
• 11:01 | How in the world did Nev go from surfboard maker to making homes from recycled plastic?
• 14:38 | The accidental recycler.
• 19:51 | How did he get investors to put money towards this idea.
• 05 | Nev explains the technology behind his homes and how it differs from what Replas does. "It's not rocket science."
• 16 | The investment challenge with building a manufacturing facility in Australia.
• 22 | Why NevHouse is a profitable investment.
• 59 | Opportunity Zone Funds in the US. The new Nev Earth Oz Fund that he created there to fund his first plant.
• 11 | Who's the customer for NevHouse flat pack plastic homes?
• 37 | As for the plastic waste?
• 40:23 | The opportunities for providing disaster relief housing quickly.
• 42:32 | Reach out to Nev if you want to know more about the homes and/or the investment opportunities. Contact details below.

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 crisis.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Jon Williams of Alliance Paper.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy's blog.

Alliance Paper Planet Ark

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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 time.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Teresa Aylott of Little Green Panda.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy's blog.

• Little Green Panda
• Stroh
• Worksmith Accelerator

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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 hope you enjoy this episode of Plastics Revolution with Heidi Taylor of Tangaroa Blue.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy's blog.

Tangaroa Blue

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