In Feb 2021, HUL made an announcement that it was going to collect & process 100% of the plastic packaging waste it generated. Why is that significant? I’ll be discussing that in this episode. Links to various references that I made: Hindustan Unilever’s Press Release on Plastic Waste Collection (Feb 2021) https://www.hul.co.in/news/press-releases/2021/hul-to-achieve-plastic-waste-collection-this-year.html Unilever’s Press Release on Reusable/Recyclable/Compostable Plastic Packaging (Jan 2017) https://www.unilever.com/news/press-releases/2017/Unilever-commits-to-100-percent-recyclable-plastic.html The New Plastics Economy 2016 Report from WEF-EllenMacArthur Foundation-McKinsey https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/EllenMacArthurFoundation_TheNewPlasticsEconomy_Pages.pdf Jenna Jambeck has many papers on plastic waste. This one talks about the impact of the ban on plastic waste imports by China. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaat0131.full I found that article! Correction: It was microplastics in a foetus, not baby. – Guardian article (Dec 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/microplastics-revealed-in-placentas-unborn-babies Plastic Waste Audit from Break Free From Plastic https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/brandaudittoolkit/

Let's kick off things by looking at what one man, a very rich man of course, is doing about climate change. This is a quick and short summary of what the Earth Fund is all about.  This is my first podcast...ever! And recorded while balancing on a very rickety chair after all the dogs of the neighbourhood have gone to sleep...so please ... be nice :) Some interesting articles I found while researching- The Thomson Reuters Foundation https://news.trust.org/item/20210310190459-06zva/ The Bloomberg article https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-bezos-scott-philanthropy/ follow me on twitter @obz_dechen