Two Rs

Hello, plastic-free oceans!

Malin discusses the two Rs – reuse and recycle – what it means in practice and the different material streams there are to it with the national plastics coordinator of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Åsa Stenmarck. The talk is framed around these questions:

Q1: Would you prefer a closed-loop recycling scheme or an open-loop recycling scheme if you were a business? (01:30)

Q2: Do you think that we will need to have the open loop and the closed loop system separate, or would they be blended in the future? (03:28)

Q3: We need to increase recycling from today's 8% to recycling a lot more into new raw materials. How will that affect existing easy-to-recycle streams? (04:30)

Q4: Would it be possible to avoid sorting, and would that then mean to have closed loop systems? (06:33)

Q5: All those streams on packaging that we have, do you think it would be possible for them to go reuse? (08:34)

Q3: Do you have any tips on how a business could approach reuse schemes? (10:39)

Jane shares some audience questions on single-use plastics and recycling that we will cover in the coming episodes and sums up three key take-aways.

Credits

Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri

Jingle: Frans Sjöberg