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Double page spread of Chemical Recycling article from report in The Times

December 19, 2022 Jim McClelland

Chemical Recycling and the ‘Future of Packaging’

Future of Packaging: Article for report in ‘The Times’ newspaper explores chemical recycling as a solution to the problem of plastic waste.

March 16, 2022 Jim McClelland

Venture capital backs eco-friendly period care

News: Period care has a plastic problem; so, ESG-based venture capital is investing in eco-friendly menstrual healthcare for a green economy.

Cover image for interactive asset showing little girl about to start climbing ladder next to pile of clothes, with text "if we stacked up all the fashion landfill created in a 12-month period, how high up this ladder would you have to climb to the top?"

March 10, 2022 Jim McClelland

Fashion waste landfill piled high as the moon

News: Piled high, the volume of fashion waste sent to landfill worldwide every year is enough to reach up to the moon in less than 8 months.

White single-use carrier bag littered in natural environment, caught on twigs and branches.

February 23, 2022 Jim McClelland

Pollution on rise as only 9% plastic waste recycled

News: Pollution on rise, as report reveals that 22% of global plastic waste is mismanaged or littered and only 9% gets recycled.

RSU Brasil Founder & COO Verner Cardoso and CEO Cicero Prado

April 24, 2020 Jim McClelland

Biomass gets up head of steam in Brazil

News: Plans have been announced to build 11 new biomass plants in Brazil, each producing steam or electricity, or both, plus helping to reduce landfill.

December 16, 2018 Jim McClelland

Circularity: ‘Future of Construction’ in The Times

New writing… Pleased to say I have had another article published in The Times newspaper, as part of a special Raconteur report

August 15, 2012 Jim McClelland

Waste: The elephant(s) in the room

A version of this article first appeared in the Chelgate Newsletter, Summer 2012. Early in 2012, the Love Food Hate

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