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Brand owners at every level are embracing sustainability. That interest is spurring more work by materials suppliers to provide options to customers.
In a Q&A with Sustainable Plastics Editor Karen Laird, Walter Ripple, vice president of sustainability at Avient Corp., discusses how Avient and its products are seeking to make a difference.
Q: We talk a lot about sustainability, but it seems as if different people have different definitions of what it actually is. So, how do you, at Avient define sustainability?
Ripple: Avient s strategy is based on the four cornerstones of people, products, plant and performance, and these four are all inextricably linked. In other words, you can t have one of those without the other, which means we re focused on all those areas. We align our activities, our messaging and our goals with all four of these cornerstones.
There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About
In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.
By Chris D Angelo
Adisa Kareem for HuffPost
Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of the ocean floor. They’ve been sitting there for nearly 50 years.
Charles McCreery was a few months into a new job as an oceanographer and water quality expert at the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management when he first learned of the dumping ground. It was 2014, and he was tasked with reviewing oil giant Shell’s exploration plans in an offshore leasing area known as Mississippi Canyon, in the north-central Gulf of Mexico. Deep in the document, he came across the company’s internal policy for steering clear of toxic waste b