Earth911 Podcast: cirplus Co-founder Christian Schiller Aims for a Circular Plastics Marketplace

Earth911 Podcast: cirplus Co-founder Christian Schiller Aims for a Circular Plastics Marketplace

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Christian Schiller, co-founder of cirplus, talks concerning the firm’s digital market for circular plastics. Think of it as Match.com or Tinder for European plastics recyclers, together with corporations that gather post-consumer supplies and people who promote processed recycled plastic to be used in new merchandise. Cirplus connects sellers with patrons and collects charges for rushing the transaction alongside. Sellers save on advertising and marketing prices and may set up ongoing relationships that assist their enterprise progress with only a few clicks. Cirplus is working now to launch its U.S. market. Christian additionally discusses the prospects for bioplastics and emerging plastic recycling technologies, together with molecular recycling, which is able to purportedly make plastic recyclable many extra occasions than right now.

Christian Schiller, co-founder of cirplus
Christian Schiller, co-founder of cirplus, a round plastics market, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

The plastics trade desperately must step up its recycling — lower than 6% of the roughly 370 million tons of plastic produced annually is recycled right now. Recycling is all about economics, and making it worthwhile depends upon gaining dependable entry to provides of recyclable supplies in addition to prospects who’re prepared to purchase the processed materials. Christian beforehand helped to construct BlaBlaCar, the place he was the primary worker on the on-line transportation market that connects drivers and bus operators to riders. Digital know-how, as we frequently hear from our company, creates efficiencies that make beforehand troublesome markets come to life. You can study extra about cirplus at cirplus.com.

This podcast initially aired on July 11, 2022.