In this episode, 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. They're now recycling 82% of their waste – providing a great case study for other businesses to follow.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy’s blog at https://tvendange.com/officeworks

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.

Today, they have two retail shops that buy and sell outdoor clothing and gear.

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

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.

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

Companies, Organisations and Products Mentioned in this Podcast:

Closed Loop

Simply Cup

Visy

7-Eleven

ShredX

Farmer's Place

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.  Long before recycling was mainstream, Rob created circular solutions for 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.

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

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chat withs JJ Stranan of Recycled Mats.  As a mumpreneur, JJ originally started a cultural education product business, but found her mats were in such high demand that it took the company in an entirely different direction. 

Recycled Mats has gone from the 3rd bedroom of JJ’s house ten years ago to a  warehouse today.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy’s blog at https://tvendange.com/podcast

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, host Tammy Ven Dange chats with Rikki Gilbey of WAW Handplanes - a body surfer who first started making his products from wood and later taking on the huge challenge of creating an entire supply chain just so that he could make his handplanes from ocean plastic.

That three year project resulted in a National Geographic award and now he has even bigger aspirations ahead.

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

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, Tammy Ven Dange chats with Hayley Clarke of Onya, a maker of reusable alternatives for single-use plastic products.

Hayley and her partner were looking for a business that aligned with their personal values when they bought Onya from its original owners in 2015. Since then, they’ve grown the company both domestically and internationally while also achieving the difficult B Corporation certification.

The full transcript is at https://tvendange.com

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, I’m chatting with Steve Morriss of Close the Loop. Steve started his circular economy business by refilling printer cartridges over 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, there was a lot of them that couldn’t be refilled, but Steve recognised an opportunity to partner with the manufacturers themselves to keep it out of the landfills. Now, Close the Loop is a global company.

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

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, I’m chatting with Lesley Van Staveren from ReGen Plastics in Cairns, Australia. For decades, Lesley and her husband Colin have been making, as well as reselling construction supplies - some made of recycled plastics collected locally and manufactured 2000 kilometres away.

They asked, “Why couldn’t this be done in Cairns.”

You can read the full transcript of this episode on Tammy’s blog at https://tvendange.com/podcast

In this episode of Plastics Revolution, I’m chatting with Louise Hardman of Plastic Collective.

Louise became aware of the plastic waste issue in the ocean over 25 years ago when she found a green turtle that was dying after eating plastic. Today she’s tackling this problem at the source by creating a portable plastic recycling machine for remote communities.   

You can read the full transcript on Tammy’s blog.