Over the last 10 years, Francis has been visiting almost yearly plastic recycling facilities in China, Chinese federations of plastic recyclers, and Chinese authorities to get a good understanding of the use of plastic material sent to China for recycling, and of the remarkable evolution which took place in the Chinese plastic recycling industry over […]

Herman Huisman is senior advisor / expert and coordinator international projects of RWS Environment’s department. The waste management department is the competent authority responsible for monitoring of all waste streams, executing subsidy schemes, policy advisor for State Government and providing information to local government and private companies. An environmental biologist by training, Herman began his […]

Joachim Quoden has extensive experience in packaging waste management, dating from 1992, when he spent 4 months in the German Federal Ministry of Environment working on packaging issues including the German Packaging Ordinance. From 1993 to 2006, he worked with Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD), where he was appointed head of […]

Lawrence Alvarez is the President of the Institute for a Resource-Based Economy (IRBE), and co-founder of the Toronto Tool Library. At IRBE, and through the Tool Library, Lawrence and his team strive to challenge our perceptions of ownership, and our relationship to the Earth’s resources, which are the common heritage of us all. Born and […]

Ralph Torrie is an energy systems expert and entrepreneur who helps his clients identify opportunities in the current global energy transition. He developed the conventions that are now used throughout the world for local government greenhouse gas strategies, including for the quantification of the GHG benefits of waste reduction and recycling. He is the co-inventor […]