Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - November 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 with our November edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Goals Summit, hosted at the Nasdaq Global Headquarters in New York City! This months covers features speakers: Peter Cuneo, Scott Frisch, Sami Hassanyeh, Lana Wong, Gretchen O'Hara, Betsy Reed, Sarah Walters, Marcus Henderson, Nick Ballard, Alexandra Mitsotakis, Mani Dasgupta, and Rawle Andrews Jr!
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 with our November edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Goals Summit, hosted at the Nasdaq Global Headquarters in New York City!
This months covers features speakers: Peter Cuneo, Scott Frisch, Sami Hassanyeh, Lana Wong, Gretchen O'Hara, Betsy Reed, Sarah Walters, Marcus Henderson, Nick Ballard, Alexandra Mitsotakis, Mani Dasgupta, and Rawle Andrews Jr!
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DEVELOPING CROSS-SECTOR<br />
PARNTERSHIPS AT IBM<br />
Mani: How does that happen? Today, when recycling, we separate things into different<br />
buckets. We take labels off, we wash them, and they go through separate processing,<br />
paper, and plastics. Even with plastics, there are different kinds, and some cannot be<br />
recycled. However, there is cross-contamination. When this happens, a lot of materials<br />
actually go into landfills. Almost 70% is not used today. IBM's technology has<br />
developed something in which you don't have to segregate; everything can come<br />
together.<br />
One of the significant causes of pollution worldwide is fast fashion, but clothes,<br />
carpets, all of that you can put together. You don't even need to wash them. It all goes<br />
in together. That VolCat system actually looks at processing the P.E.T. out of that and<br />
creates 100% recyclable. Now, if you put this system into the facilities manufacturing<br />
plastics, it can take the old plastic and create new ones. In the future, you won't need<br />
to rely on fossil fuels and petroleum to be able to create plastics. That's an innovation<br />
to bring that mainstream, but we will need the administration, we will need the people<br />
to do things differently, and it will require all of us to work together in different ways.<br />
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