Rob Opsomer is the Systemic Initiatives Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Before arriving at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Rob worked for five years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he was an Engagement Manager and focused on resource productivity and finance.
Recent years have seen an unprecedented recognition of the rising tide of ocean plastic pollution. But it has become clear that despite significant levels of dedication, innovation and in...
塑料无处不在。它可以保护我们的食物，让飞机更加轻便，帮助风力涡轮机运转。然而，目前的塑料回收利用体系尚不健全。只有14%的塑料包装得到循环处理，这给全球经济造成了每年高达800亿到1200亿美元的损失。许多塑料制品仅仅使用一次就被丢弃，最终导致环境污染。如果我们坐视不管，那么到2050年，海洋中的塑料可能会比鱼还要多。
Plastics are everywhere. They protect our food, make our planes lighter, and help wind turbines turn. Yet our plastics system is broken. Only 14% of plastic packaging is recycled, resulti...
In just over half a century, plastics have become pervasive throughout the economy due to their versatility and cost-effectiveness, growing their production volumes twenty-fold. Yet along...
Plastics are fundamental to industry and everyday life. Yet they are one of the most wasteful examples of our existing linear, take-make-dispose economy. With material value losses runnin...
At the 2016 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, we launched a report called The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics. This report provides, for the first ti...
