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To make sustainable change, to protect our oceans and environment, and create a lower-carbon future, we need to have a dialogue with everyone involved.

So, we’re Sustainably Speaking with innovators, policymakers, academicians, and scientists. The people who are helping address the most critical issues of our time.

Our podcast touches on ways to create a brighter future through the lens of sustainability.

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Unpacking U.S. Recycling

Explore the fascinating journey of Keefe Harrison from a college job to CEO of The Recycling Partnership on Sustainably Speaking. Hear her advice on joining the recycling movement, myths and facts about plastic recycling, and how you can contribute to a circular economy for a better planet.

The Technology Creating Value from Used Plastic

Jeremy DeBenedictis shares an inspiring story about what it takes to become an environmental entrepreneur. As President of Alterra, Jeremy leads and mentors his team which has developed an innovative technology to help keep used plastics out of landfills through advanced recycling.

Why We Need to Study Microplastics

In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, host Mia Quinn is joined by Dr. Jeanne Hankett, Sustainability Lead, North American Biodegradation & Microplastics Center of Excellence at BASF, to explore the critical role that science is playing when it comes to identifying solutions for microplastics pollution.

The Urgency of Now: Advocating for Plastics Recycling & Sustainability

In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Ross Eisenberg, president of America's Plastic Makers® at the American Chemistry Council, discusses his journey in advocating for sustainable solutions, current priorities, and policy implementation challenges.

Energy Efficient Building Innovations

"We've developed a solution that takes landfill or ocean bound plastic and tried to convert it into something that is usable to help solve for some of the challenges that we're seeing in the construction industry."

Will Americans Embrace the Next Era of Recycling?

“I started off where the vast majority of Americans start off, with not a lot of background or information about what advanced recycling means. But once I heard more about it, and I understood it more, I was like, wait a minute, this is fantastic. I'm absolutely all in for this. Which, is same thing that happened to the voters and consumers in our poll.”

Slam Dunk! Atlanta Hawks x Sustainability

"Every decision matters, right. And being a part of an organization where in 2022, we had 1.5 million fans coming into our venue, whether that's for a Hawks game or to come see your favorite artist perform, there is an opportunity to make an impact."

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The Road to Sustainable Infrastructure

“We're a few years into this research, and it's really checking all the boxes at this point. We're finding that it's making the mix more durable, obviously more sustainable, and we're finding formulations that are reducing the cost. And that's the trifecta. If you can get the economics and the durability and the sustainability all going in the right direction, it's almost like why wouldn't we do this?”

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Sustainability Through an Economic Lens

“Those plastic specs we see in the ocean, those plastic bottles, they end up there because we haven't properly incentivized recycling, reuse. We haven't properly looked at design, for example, we haven't looked at the whole value chain of plastics and found ways to bring as much plastic back into the system as possible. And that has policy elements to it, but it also has design solutions in it and recycling technologies."