Positive climate tipping points often spark rapid transformation. This TOMRA Talks Circular podcast discusses how super-leverage points and technology adoption can cut emissions in one key sector and support faster changes in other parts of the economy. Our guests, Ben Dixon and Maaike Witteveen from SYSTEMIQ, share their expertise and insights on …

Is textile recycling the missing link for creating circular fashion? This TOMRA Talks Circular podcast explores what it takes to establish systems that collect and sort textiles for reuse and fiber-to-fiber recycling. Our guest, Vibeke Kroh, Head of TOMRA Textiles, shares her insights and key beliefs to enable textile circularity. From textile poli…

Wealthier nations are responsible for much of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. How can residents in these countries proactively reduce their environmental footprint? In this TOMRA Talks Circular podcast, we interview a mother and son duo from Denmark to talk about generational differences and how they approach sustainability. Together with Hel…

The circular economy is a lifeline for our collective future. In this podcast episode, Tove Andersen, CEO and President of TOMRA shares her insights on the latest developments that positively impact the circular economy. The discussion runs the gamut of innovative ways to save precious resources, including using AI-based technologies to make mining…

For decades, there has been a general gridlock on modernizing or expanding deposit return systems in the United States. But in 2021, lawmakers in Connecticut addressed the beverage industry and stakeholder challenges head-on. In the episode of TOMRA Talks Circular podcast, we talk to Mike Noel, Director of Public Affairs at TOMRA, to learn how poli…

As policymakers from more than 170 nations come together for the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (#INC3) in November, intense discussions are underway about which mandates will be in a legally binding global plastics treaty. In this new TOMRA Talks Circular Podcast episode, environmental policy advocates Dominic Hogg, F…

Did you know that the fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world? It contributes to 10% of global carbon emissions and 20% of global water waste. In this episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, Hilde van Duijn, Head of Global Value Chains at Circle Economy, shares her knowledge and perspectives on how industry players and consum…

How can we reuse our way to true circularity for valuable resources, and what does this concept look like in practice? If you missed our webcast on Reuse, tune in to this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, as we have published part 2 of the audio recording. This episode features industry expert Andy Grant, Technical Director – Local Government…

How can we reuse our way to true circularity for valuable resources, and what does this concept look like in practice? If you missed our webcast on Reuse, tune in to this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, as we have published part 1 of the audio recording. This episode features industry expert Geir Sæther (Senior Vice President, Circular Econ…

The UN treaty on plastic pollution has the potential to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy for plastic. With negotiations well on their way, we sat down with Nancy Strand, Senior Advisor at Avfall Norge, and Jacob Rognhaug, Vice President of Public Affairs, System Design at TOMRA to discuss the recent INC2 meeting in Paris. Please…

Environmental, Sustainability and Governance standards are significantly reshaping the business landscape, and it’s not only nature that’s benefitting. Sustainable action has the potential to reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction and reduce business risk. In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we have an inspiring conversation with …

A recent study published by Reloop (in partnership with Zero Waste Europe), highlights the benefits and vast potential that mixed waste sorting – also known as mixed waste processing – has to positively impact not only recycling and recycled content targets, but also reduce our CO2 emissions.     In today’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we have …

It’s been almost a year since we had Annupa Ahi, VP Public Affairs, Head of Asia at TOMRA, on the show to talk about the state of EPR in Asia. Today, we’re happy to have her back to talk us through what’s happened since then. Has intention turned to action? Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our short survey! https://www.surveymon…

Digitalization is transforming how many companies do business – from the ways they communicate, to the ways they create, produce, and distribute their products. The waste management industry is no different. In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we chat to Felix Flemming (senior vice president and Head of Digital at TOMRA Sorting) and And…

In the 2nd part of our episode on how deposit return systems (DRS) significantly improve the circularity of one of the most littered items in the world, beverage containers, Michael Löwe, VP Public Affairs and Head of System Design at TOMRA, talks us through the trends and challenges of implementing DRS around the world, among other things. Please …

When we give plastic a value, we help ensure that it is treated as a resource that can be used again and again. This is why deposit return systems (DRS) work to greatly accelerate the circularity of beverage containers. In this episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we chat to Michael Löwe, VP Public Affairs and Head of System Design at TOMRA, about what…

There’s no doubt that climate change is a multi-generational problem, but how do different generations think and talk about the crisis? To kick off 2023, we decided to get climate perspectives across generations. Father and son, Volker Rehrmann (EVP and Head of TOMRA Recycling) and Roque Rehrmann (student at the Technical University in Munich, Germ…

Only with clear and quick action can we accelerate solutions to the climate crisis and affect real change before it’s too late. Tove Andersen, TOMRA’s President and CEO, echoes this sentiment in our final podcast episode of 2022. Listen to her thoughts and hopes for the future now. Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our short surv…

In March this year, the resolution titled: ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards a legally binding instrument’ was adopted to address our waste crisis. In this episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Jacob Rognhaug, Vice President of Public Affairs, System Design at TOMRA, about the monumental negotiations that began recently to develop this legally …

In this episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Pauline Bergan, Senior Business Development Manager at TOMRA, about the trends shaping the future of deposit return systems (DRS), the role of reverse vending machines in the digital ecosystem of DRS, and more. Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our short survey! https://www.surv…

In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Dickon Bonvik-Stone, Communications Manager at TOMRA, about the established norms of communicating climate change, why these practices have proven ineffective in driving action, and what we can do to change that. Show note links: Communicating Climate Change, a podcast dedicated to helping …

In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we continue to talk to Louisa Hoyes, Business Development Manager, Textiles at TOMRA, about the current state of affairs across the textiles value chain, and the solutions that exist to help close the loop and shift to a true circular economy for textiles. Please help us improve this podcast and take …

In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Louisa Hoyes, Business Development Manager, Textiles at TOMRA, about the current state of affairs across the textiles value chain, and the solutions that exist to help close the loop and shift to a true circular economy for textiles. Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our …

In part two of this episode on chemical recycling, we delve deeper into the topic with John Sewell, Secretary General at Chemical Recycling Europe. This episode covers the global landscape as it stands today, the need for capacity, as well as the political support for chemical recycling technologies, among other things. Please help us improve this …

Join us as we chat to John Sewell, Secretary General at Chemical Recycling Europe, about the potential that chemical recycling has to help tackle plastic pollution. We start with the basics, covering what chemical recycling is and its relationship to mechanical recycling, and work our way through this complex topic. Keep an eye out for part 2. Plea…

How a product is manufactured, how it’s used, how long it lasts, and how it’s disposed of – these are all elements that must be thought of while designing products and packaging. In this week’s episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Mateusz Wielopolski, founder of ÆVOLUTION, about his vision of circular product design. Don’t miss it. Please he…

In part two of our discussion with Jürgen Priesters, SVP, Business Development at TOMRA, we discuss what can be done now, and in the future to ensure that we meet recycling quotas and accelerate the transition towards a circular economy. Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our short survey! https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/6DKN38R…

In our latest podcast, Jürgen Priesters, SVP Business Development at TOMRA, takes us through the first hundred years of waste collection systems in Germany, the current state of affairs, and what we can expect in the future. This is part one of a two-part episode. Please help us improve this podcast and take part in our short survey! https://www.su…

Demand for aluminum is set to increase by over 40% by 2050. To meet that demand, we must collect and sort this material stream more effectively. In this episode, we talk to Frank van de Winkel, Business Development Manager, Metal at TOMRA, about the technologies that exist to help us achieve circularity for aluminum and other metals. Please help us…

The amount of packaging waste that litters our environment continues to rise, and there has never been a greater need, first and foremost, for the circularity of post-consumer waste. In the latest episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, we talk to Laszlo Szekely, TOMRA’s Head of Plastics Applications, about how much plastic is in post-consumer waste strea…

When talking about the circular economy, there are other waste steams than plastic that should be considered and handled in a way that allows us to maximize its use while minimizing its impact on the environment. Wood is a key example. In this episode, we will talk about wood with Jose Matas, who works to protect this precious resource as a Segment…

This month, global environmental communities shared, and celebrated innovation at IFAT — the world's leading trade fair for environmental technologies — for the first time since the pandemic began. In our latest episode, we talk to Philipp Eisenmann, Exhibition Director at IFAT, about the visitors and exhibitors that came to Munich from around the …

To accelerate the transition towards a circular economy, we need innovation and new business models, of course. But more than that, we need to maximize the use of the effective systems that already exist. In our latest episode, we talk to Dr. Debbie Fletcher, Director of Operations at Eunomia, about how we can leverage existing solutions to achieve…

Asia is the largest continent in the world, with many complex and culturally unique regions. This makes the development of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) frameworks for each region a large, complex, and unique undertaking. In our fourth episode on EPR, we talk to Annupa Ahi, VP Public Affairs – Head of Asia Business Development and Strategy…

Over the past two episodes, we have covered various aspects of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), but we have yet to hear from those who are most impacted from this policy principle – the producers themselves. Until now. In this week’s episode, we talk with Katharina Marquardt, Head of Sustainability and Technical Communications (DACH region) …

EPR provides the legal framework for producers to take responsibility for their product and packaging at all stages of their lifecycles and is fast becoming a recognized approach for ‘closing the loop’. But for EPR to really work, we must all play our part. In this week’s episode, Mike Noel, Public Affairs Director at TOMRA, shines a light on the r…

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an important policy principle in the transition towards a circular economy, as it can create a framework to capture valuable materials and ensure their quality is effectively preserved for use in multiple cycles. The concept is simple enough – producers take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of produc…

‘Climate change is the challenge of our lifetime’. In this special episode, Volker Rehrmann, Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling/Mining and Circular Economy, talks about this challenge: how we rose to it in 2021, and how we may continue to rise in 2022. We discuss breakthrough technologies, discoveries, and solutions to mitigate th…

Governments and policy makers can only do so much in the fight for a waste-free future. To help inspire real change, we need leaders with a deep drive to make a difference, a passion for problem solving, and the knowledge to back it up. We need more leaders like Dr. Ramesh Ramachandran, the newly-appointed CEO of Minderoo Foundation’s No Plastic Wa…

Here’s the truth: All plastics, whether bio-based or traditional, have the same negative effect on the environment if they are left to burn or take up space in landfills. Clarissa Morawski, co-founder and CEO of Reloop, is back to remind us that no matter what a material is made of, we need to collect and process it properly if we’re going to ensur…

We have a plastic pollution problem, and we have massive garbage patches floating on the surface of the ocean to remind us that we need to do whatever it takes to solve it. We can no longer sit on the sidelines, and no one knows that better than Emily Penn. In this episode, we talk to skipper, dedicated ocean activist, public speaker, and advisor E…

In this episode, Clarissa Morawski, co-founder and CEO of Reloop, explores the complicated matter of moving towards a circular economy – the challenges, as well as the solutions that will help us keep products and materials in the loop for as long as possible, and, by extension, help us regenerate our natural systems and reduce greenhouse gas emiss…

If the goal is to collect and recycle as much waste as possible before it ends up being burned - then this episode covers one crucial solution in making that goal a reality. We sat down with Arnoud te Winkel, Area Sales Manager at TOMRA, to chat through a waste model that has proven to increase the amount of high-value material that we recover from…

In this episode, Tom Eng, Senior Vice President and Head of Recycling at TOMRA, joins us to talk about a solution that can help lessen our dependency on virgin materials and enhance the circularity of high-quality recycled content for new products and packaging. To increase our recycling rates, we need to recover valuable materials before they end …

In this episode, Harald Henriksen, Head of TOMRA Collections, takes listeners through a TOMRA first – and a global first – 100 days to help rid a country of their plastic beverage container litter. Due to TOMRA’s level of experience, high-performing service, and unparalleled digital solutions, the Lithuanian government chose us to implement a natio…

In this episode, Wolfgang Ringel, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs at TOMRA, talks Deposit Return Schemes (DRS): the benefits, the challenges, and the future of this tried and tested plastic waste solution. DRS fits into TOMRA’s holistic approach to waste management (as highlighted in the new white paper, Holistic Resource Systems), an…

In this episode, Oliver Lambertz, Vice President, Head of Business Development at TOMRA Sorting, discusses Norway’s #1 waste management model for collecting the most household plastic waste. For consumers, source separation can be inconvenient, complicated or confusing, which is how post-consumer waste ends up being incinerated instead of recycled.…

In this episode, Volker Rehrmann, Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling/Mining and Circular Economy, talks about the newest division at TOMRA, and how its approach to waste management can help us achieve the EU’s ambitious, but achievable green objectives. TOMRA’s holistic approach to waste management (as highlighted in the white pap…