TOMRA Talks Circular

In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Louisa Hoyes, Business Development Manager, Textiles at TOMRA, about the current state of affairs across the textiles value chain, and the solutions that exist to help close the loop and shift to a true circular economy for textiles.

In part two of this episode on chemical recycling, we delve deeper into the topic with John Sewell, Secretary General at Chemical Recycling Europe. This episode covers the global landscape as it stands today, the need for capacity, as well as the political support for chemical recycling technologies, among other things.

Join us as we chat to John Sewell, Secretary General at Chemical Recycling Europe, about the potential that chemical recycling has to help tackle plastic pollution. We start with the basics, covering what chemical recycling is and its relationship to mechanical recycling, and work our way through this complex topic. Keep an eye out for part 2.

How a product is manufactured, how it’s used, how long it lasts, and how it’s disposed of – these are all elements that must be thought of while designing products and packaging. In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Mateusz Wielopolski, founder of ÆVOLUTION, about his vision of circular product design. Don’t miss it.

In part two of our discussion with Jürgen Priesters, SVP, Business Development at TOMRA, we discuss what can be done now, and in the future to ensure that we meet recycling quotas and accelerate the transition towards a circular economy.

In our latest podcast, Jürgen Priesters, SVP Business Development at TOMRA, takes us through the first hundred years of waste collection systems in Germany, the current state of affairs, and what we can expect in the future. This is part one of a two-part episode.

Demand for aluminum is set to increase by over 40% by 2050. To meet that demand, we must collect and sort this material stream more effectively. In this episode, we talk to Frank van de Winkel, Business Development Manager, Metal at TOMRA, about the technologies that exist to help us achieve circularity for aluminum and other metals.

The amount of packaging waste that litters our environment continues to rise, and there has never been a greater need, first and foremost, for the circularity of post-consumer waste. In the latest episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Laszlo Szekely, TOMRA’s Head of Plastics Applications, about how much plastic is in post-consumer waste streams, and the importance of collecting, sorting, and recycling these materials, among other things.

When talking about the circular economy, there are other waste steams than plastic that should be considered and handled in a way that allows us to maximize its use while minimizing its impact on the environment. Wood is a key example.In this episode, we will talk about wood with Jose Matas, who works to protect this precious resource as a Segment Manager Wood at TOMRA.

This month, global environmental communities shared, and celebrated innovation at IFAT — the world's leading trade fair for environmental technologies — for the first time since the pandemic began. In our latest episode, we talk to Philipp Eisenmann, Exhibition Director at IFAT, about the visitors and exhibitors that came to Munich from around the world, the key focuses of this year’s event, and more.