Martin Koehring - Global Sustainability and Ocean Expert | Charity Board Member | TEDx Speaker | I help create multi-stakeholder partnerships & impactful research on 🌏 Climate 🌏 Nature 🌏 Blue Economy

Plastic recycling technologies assessment

A wave of advanced recycling innovations has the potential to transform recycling practices, offering some important advantages over established mechanical technologies. I am the project director of a new assessment that has just been published, examining the distinguishing characteristics of a range of plastic recycling technologies. Produced by Economist Impact and supported by Dow, the in-depth assessment was informed by an advisory board and desk research.

The assessment covers 10 promising advanced recycling technologies and scores them on a range of indicators in five categories: applicability, quality of output, efficiency & sustainability, integration, and reach & scalability.

Explore the assessment: https://ocean.economist.com/rethinking-plastics/assessment/

Check out the infographic on policy pathways: https://ocean.economist.com/rethinking-plastics/infographic/

Read the full briefing paper: https://ocean.economist.com/rethinking-plastics/briefing-paper/

More on the ocean economy:

How to take action against ocean pollution from wastewater and sewageApril 8, 2024
How to invest better in the blue economyMarch 26, 2024
Moderating 6 sessions at the World Ocean Summit in LisbonMarch 8, 2024
How could ocean innovation accelerate sustainable development by 2030?January 10, 2024
Diagnosing the aquaculture systemNovember 8, 2023

Tags: circular economy ocean plastics sustainability

I’m a global ocean, climate and sustainability expert with 20+ years of experience, including progressively more strategic and leadership responsibilities. My most recent roles include Global Director of Impact at the international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, Board Member at the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice), Head of the World Ocean Initiative and Practice Lead (EMEA) for Sustainability, Climate Change and Natural Resources at Economist Impact (part of The Economist Group). My previous roles at The Economist Group include managing editor, global health lead and Europe editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. I love to work with organisations that build a just, resilient and regenerative future for people and planet.

Over the years I have directed many sustainability-related research and thought-leadership projects with partners in business, government, academia and civil society, in areas such as food sustainability, a just energy transition and the role of business in society. I was also the editorial lead of the award-winning Sustainability Project.

As part of my wider engagement on sustainability, I am a trustee of the New Economics Foundation (a think tank focusing on social, economic and environmental justice). I sit on the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Inclusive Economies Advisory Group and the Sustainable Brands Turkey Global Advisory Board. I have also been a member of the Advisory Committee for the UN Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook for Business, a senior rapporteur at World Water Week, a faculty member in the Food & Sustainability Certificate Program provided by the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability and a judge at the Reuters Events Responsible Business Awards.

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