Dow’s  Marco ten Bruggencate, Commercial Vice President for Packaging & Specialty Plastics in EMEA, and Carsten Larsen, Commercial Director for Plastic Recycling in EMEA, are joined by Jim McClelland, Editor of SustMeme magazine, to discuss ‘Emotion versus Science’ and how that plays out in today’s debate around plastics. Our guests discuss how we can balance the emotional response we all feel when seeing waste, with a logical, scientific approach when it comes to choosing materials.Key discussion points include: Whether the industry is doing enough to combat the negative (20:58-21:21)How we can demonstrate the benefits of circular plastic (10:42-11:19)The role of the value chain (8:13-8:41)

Dow’s  Marco ten Bruggencate, Commercial Vice President for Packaging & Specialty Plastics in EMEA, and Carsten Larsen, Commercial Director for Plastic Recycling in EMEA, are joined by Jim McClelland, Editor of SustMeme magazine, to discuss ‘Emotion versus Science’ and how that plays out in today’s debate around plastics. Our guests discuss how we can balance the emotional response we all feel when seeing waste, with a logical, scientific approach when it comes to choosing materials.Key discussion points include: <ol><li>Whether the industry is doing enough to combat the negative (20:58-21:21)</li><li>How we can demonstrate the benefits of circular plastic (10:42-11:19)</li><li>The role of the value chain (8:13-8:41)</li></ol>

-21:21)How we can demonstrate the benefits of circular plastic (10:42-11:19)The role of the value chain (8:13-8:41)

Bioplastics

Plastics Unwrapped is a podcast series supported by Dow, on the hunt for solutions to some of the biggest questions facing the plastics industry.​
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Join host and journalist Maithreyi Seetharaman on her quest for thought-provoking ideas on how to make plastics truly circular. This is a space where the world's leading thinkers and doers from the worlds of technology, policy-making, civil society, academia and business have honest and difficult conversations about the future of sustainability and plastics.