TOMRA Circular Economy

TOMRA Talks Circular

Business EN ↓ 56 episodes

A podcast that aims to affect real change with real conversations. In each episode, we connect with industry experts, business owners, activists and others, to discuss our transition to a circular economy - the challenges we face, the solutions that exist, and the innovations that could drive us into a waste-free future.

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TOMRA Circular Economy

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Season 01, Episode 06: Tonnes of Valuable Material Go Up in Smoke Every Year – They Don’t Have To 29.09.2021 26:29

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 household waste. Waste destined for recycling, no...

Season 01, Episode 05: Prioritizing Plastic Recovery and Recyclability with Mixed Waste Sorting 15.09.2021 24:38

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 up in landfills and incinerators. That’s where Mix...

Season 01, Episode 04:Setting the Benchmark: Lithuania's Pioneering Deposit Return Scheme 25.08.2021 27:11

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 national Deposit Return Scheme (one of the most effecti...

Season 01, Episode 03:Changing the Culture of Disposability One Beverage Container at a Time 11.08.2021 30:40

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), and in this episode of TOMRA Talks Circular, you’ll...

Season 01, Episode 02: How Mixed Wasted Sorting Changed the Game 29.07.2021 30:00

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. Enter the advanced mixed waste sorting facility t...

Season 01, Episode 01: The Evidence-Based Solutions to our Waste Management Crisis 15.07.2021 27:31

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 paper, Holistic Resource Systems), looks at three tri...