The SEC releases a report on investments and women; the Manufacturing Institute's STEP Ahead Awards honors plastics companies; and two women are making history by heading a NPE committee in the trade show's 75-year history.
Building an On-ramp for Catalytic Capital to Reduce Plastic Leakage: Q&A with Circulate Capital’s April Crow
Back in 2005, as a part of the Coca-Cola Company Environmental Team, April Crow was a pioneer working on the concept of sustainable packaging. In the mid-2000s, despite stories on the great pacific garbage patch, ocean plastic waste was not high on policy or corporate agendas. April believed this was due to a lack of scientific data on the scale and threat of plastic waste. To fill this gap, April’s team partnered with Ocean Conservancy to convene leading scientists to help fill these knowledge gaps. Their research found the majority of marine plastic pollution stemmed from five Asian countries that lacked waste management infrastructure, which if fully in place, could reduce leakage by 45 percent. This insight raised a challenging question how can companies and aid agencies bring funding to these markets to facilitate better infrastructure and prevent plastic leakage?
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We all know that plastic waste is a problem, but rarely are we confronted with the hard evidence of its damage to our planet and its bodies of water.
It’s estimated there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste littering our oceans. What’s even more harrowing is that experts predict, without immediate action, that this number will nearly triple by 2040.
Devastating as these figures may be, there’s solace in knowing some companies are making clean oceans a priority even going so far as to make it a core facet of their business models.
Ocean Brands the name behind some of Canada’s most popular seafood brands (Ocean’s, Gold Seal, and Millionaires), snacks, sauces, and condiments recently announced its newest partnership with Berlin-based startup Cleanhub, an organization working to protect our oceans from plastic waste.