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Episode 317: Conversations about circularity

Highlights from Circularity 22, including green chemistry pioneer John Warner, sustainability marketing maven Suzanne Shelton and champion of the information waste collection sector, Keiran Smith of Mr. Green Africa.

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This week's run time is 1:03:05.

CONSIDERING CIRCULARITY (8:50)

Featuring a recap of interviews and stories from Circularity 22, held this week in Atlanta.

  • INTERVIEW: Jon Smieja, vice president of circularity and senior analyst for GreenBiz, reflects on hot topics and themes 
  • STORY/AUDIO HIGHLIGHT: Planet vs. plastic: Three steps to solving the global plastics crisis (Featuring Keiran Smith, co-founder and CEO of Mr. Green Africa, on how to encourage decisions made at the local level.)
  • STORY/AUDIO HIGHLIGHT: John Warner: How to do the materials economy right (Featuring John Warner, senior vice president and research fellow of Zymergen, on how green chemistry could enable the leap to a regenerative, circular economy ... if we educated chemists.)
  • CHITCHAT: Textile recycling tech startup triumphs in Circularity 22's Accelerate competition
  • AUDIO HIGHLIGHT: Suzanne Shelton, founder and CEO, Shelton Group (On the importance of shifting context; and what that disturbing baby wrapped in cellophane image teaches us about marketing circularity.)
FEATURE
More sustainable consumer goods (47:30)

Interview with new CEO Christy Slay of The Sustainability Consortium, about priorities, circularity and engaging nimble innovators.

*Music in this episode: Lee Rosevere: "Not My Problem" and "Let That Sink In"; ItsWatR: "Awakening Instrumental"

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