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. Ten years later, the KeepCup brand has become the generic term for a reusable coffee cup.

Find the notes and links from this episode at plasticsrevolution.com.

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 recycled plastic posts to a much greater variety of products including their Duratrack railway sleepers

You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode at plasticsrevolution.com.au.

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 there's an estimated 250 million people in 177 countries involved.

You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode on plasticsrevolution.com.

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, Tammy Ven Dange chats with Paul Jenkins of ThePackHub.

We learn more about the sustainability trends that he’s seeing in the consumer 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.

You can read the summary and see all of the links from this episode at https://tvendange.com/podcast

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, as well as how you can help your favourite cafes save money.

You can read the summary of this episode on Tammy’s blog at https;//tvendange.com/podcast

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. The recycled plastics industry is really one of those that is hurting right now but 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.

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 at https://tvendange.com/podcast

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Jon Williams of Alliance Paper, a manufacturer of paper products and a distributor of bio-packaging material.

Jon’s been in the printing industry all his life, and in recent years, he’s driven the business’s to create better products from both an environmental and health perspective. We’d talk about the business, the paper industry and the impact of the Covid-19 crisis.

The full transcript is at https://tvendange.com/jon-w

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. And then last year, Teresa decided to merge with another liked-minded company creating the Little Green Panda we see today.  Together, they're reducing plastic waste, one straw at a time.

You can read the full transcript of this episode at https://tvendange.com/teresa-aylott

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.

You can read the full transcript of this episode at https://tvendange.com/podcast