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Francis Huysman

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 […]

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Herman Huisman

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 […]

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Joachim Quoden

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 […]

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Lawrence Alvarez

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 […]

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Ralph Torrie

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 […]

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Peter Hargreave

Peter Hargreave is the Director of Policy & Strategy for the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA). The Ontario Waste Management Association is a non-profit industry association, which represents the private and public sector involved in all aspects of waste management from organics and recycling to hazardous waste, energy from waste and landfill. It also represents […]

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Brian Keating

Brian Keating is Honourary Conservation Advisor at the Calgary Zoo and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calgary. He has been leading groups on nature based travel for three decades, exploring some of the best wildlife areas on the Planet.  He’s a weekly guest on both Calgary and Edmonton’s CBC Radio, and […]

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Adam Minter

Adam Minter’s perspective on the global flow of recyclable materials that are collected, processed, and sold from Canada and the USA is truly revealing. He grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became a professional journalist and now serves as a columnist for Bloomberg View. For the last decade, he has […]

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