Matt Prindiville is the CEO and Chief Solutioneer at UPSTREAM Solutions, a nonprofit uniting many stakeholders together to support reuse systems and culture. Matt has decades of experience with working on issues from plastic waste, most recently working to show businesses the benefit of reusable containers.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about UPSTREAM's work, you can visit their website (https://upstreamsolutions.org/) or listen to their fantastic podcast (https://theindisposablepodcast.simplecast.com/)
Jay Sinha is Cofounder and Co-owner of Life Without Plastic, a Canadian shopping platform for plastic-free products. Jay has decades of experience in scientific research, environmental policy, and entrepreneurship regarding plastics.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about Life Without Plastic's work, you can visit their website (https://lifewithoutplastic.com/) or read their book (www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533744-life-without-plastic)
Charlotte Maiden is a Publicist at Terracycle Loop, a company creating a door-delivery reusable shopping platform. Their work is among the first to scale reusable packaging for large consumer brands and across multiple countries.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about Loop's work, please visit their website (www.loopstore.com).
Kelly McBee is the Waste Program Coordinator at As You Sow, a nonprofit uniting financial shareholders of large public companies to achieve sustainability. As You Sow represents the voices of these shareholders when engaging large companies to make sustainable changes on issues like decreasing plastic waste.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about As You Sow's work, you can visit their website (https://www.asyousow.org/) or read their report
Laura Diaz Sanches is a Campaigner for Microplastics at the Plastic Soup Foundation in the Netherlands. Their work encourages solutions to several aspects of plastic pollution and Laura is responsible for their initiatives like promoting washing guidelines to prevent clothes from releasing as many microfibers.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about the Plastic Soup Foundation's work, you can visit their website (https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org)
Dr. Amy V. Uhrin is the Chief Scientist of NOAA's Marine Debris Program. Their work routinely supports marine debris research through grants and outreach and Dr. Uhrin oversees their research priorities.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about the NOAA Marine Debris Program's work, you can visit their website (https://marinedebris.noaa.gov)
- They offer grants to researchers and institutions at https://grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=marine%20debris
- Results from research they fund is available at https://clearinghouse.marinedebris.noaa.gov
- Publicly-available research from all of NOAA is available at https://repository.library.noaa.gov/
- NOAA also has science-related webinars about their work for the public at https://nodc.noaa.gov/seminars/
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This interview was recorded on Sep. 22, 2020
David Lefebvre is the Director of Public Affairs at RecycleBC, a coalition of businesses in British Columbia that manage waste generated from their products. He is the spokesperson for all of RecycleBC's initiatives, from educating consumers on how to recycle waste streams to developing alternatives for increasing the recycling of flexible plastic packaging.
This is an interview of Dave's thoughts on the status quo of British Columbia's legislation to involve producers in the management of their waste, recorded by Madhav Malhotra (one of the students at The Plastic Shift). To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about RecycleBC's work, you can visit their website (https://recyclebc.ca/) or read their annual reports (https://recyclebc.ca/about-recyclebc/program-overview/annual-reports/). To see more about some of their projects, you can find them on any social media @recyclebc or learn more via their app (https://recyclebc.ca/app/)
Dr. Lise Magnier is the Assistant Professor of Consumer Research at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research studies how consumers are influenced by product sustainability, especially when it comes to product packaging.
This is an interview of Dr. Magnier's thoughts on the status quo, challenges, and potential of consumer-oriented research to design more sustainable products. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com
To learn more about Dr. Magnier's work, please visit https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/about-ide/people/magnier-lbm/
Dr. Travis Wagner is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. His research studies the role of government legislation in decreasing the usage of single-use plastics.
This is an interview of Dr. Wagner's thoughts on the status quo, challenges, and potential of government regulations to address this issue. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com
To learn more about Dr. Wagner's work, please visit https://usm.maine.edu/environmental-science/travis-wagner
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