Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine, March 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our March edition. Inside, view conversations from our Global Innovation Summit! This months covers features speakers from the Global Innovation Summit: Jeff Peterson, Tiffani Bova, Jeff Terry, Anne Gross, Amy Porfiri, Vedrana Hodzic, David Yunger, Craig Cookson, Ernest Dupont, Zoe Thompson, Jordan Mitchell, and Suzanne McCormick.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our March edition. Inside, view conversations from our Global Innovation Summit!
This months covers features speakers from the Global Innovation Summit: Jeff Peterson, Tiffani Bova, Jeff Terry, Anne Gross, Amy Porfiri, Vedrana Hodzic, David Yunger, Craig Cookson, Ernest Dupont, Zoe Thompson, Jordan Mitchell, and Suzanne McCormick.
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G L O B A L<br />
The Circular Economy<br />
and Partnerships within<br />
the American Chemistry<br />
Council<br />
Craig Cookson<br />
Senior Director, Plastics Sustainability<br />
American Chemistry Council<br />
George Sifakis: George: What is the circular economy, and how is it related to your work<br />
directly at the American Chemistry Council?<br />
Craig Cookson: Yeah, so we think of our economy now, and the opposite of the circular<br />
economy is a linear economy where we take, we make, and then we waste. We cut down<br />
trees, drill for oil and natural gas, mine for minerals and metals, and then make something,<br />
and maybe we're not optimizing our resources and being as efficient as we can along the<br />
way. After we've used those materials, for lack of better words, we dig a hole in the<br />
ground, dump this stuff in, cover it with dirt, and it's a landfill. Then we go back and do<br />
the same thing. So a circular economy is number one, how can we do everything? How<br />
can we better optimize our resources so we're using less energy, conserving water, and<br />
reducing our greenhouse gas emissions? After we've used these products, how do we<br />
recycle and recover them and get them back into our economy instead of wasting them<br />
and taking a new virgin natural resource?<br />
George: That is incredible, and thank you for that because it's important to understand<br />
what that circularity is; what is that circular economy? Taking it a step further, as you're<br />
collaborating with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, how do you<br />
approach this? How do you do that effectively within and outside of the plastics industry?<br />
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