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Creating a More Sustainable Plastics Industry
Dr. Mike Biddle
Founder and President, MBA Polymers Principal/Founder, Material Solutions
Material Solutions
Delivering resource efficiency solutions
Material Solutions
Are Plastics:
A. One of the most sustainable materials on the plant?
B. A Plague on the Planet?
“Plastic Plague” C. Both?
Multiple Choice Question
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Why Should We Care?
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“I have one word for you”
“Plastics”
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Plastics have Grown Faster than most Materials
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Plastics have Grown Faster than most Materials
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A Tale of Two Materials
Steel Recycling Rate is Much Higher
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Estimates from durable goods
Plastics are More Valuable
Plastics
Steel Steel
Plastics
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So why aren’t more plastics re-used?
1. Plas8cs just started coming back in large and organized volumes
2. It’s not Easy
Material Solutions
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Japan
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Japan
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Automobile Recycling - Germany
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Automobile and WEEE Recycling - Austria
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – The Netherlands
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – Germany
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - France
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Spain
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Switzerland
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – South Korea
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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Taiwan
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Shredding to Liberate and Recover Metals
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Remaining material is called “shredder residue”
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Shredder residue from large appliances
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Shredder residue from automobiles
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Mixed Plastics from MRFS
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Density
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Steel
Aluminum
Brass
Titanium
Magnesium
Metals
Water 1
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PE PP PS ABS f-PP
nylon PET PC/ABS
SAN PPO
POM
PU PSU
PVC PPS PEI
PMMA
Plastics
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Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling
Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
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Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
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Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling
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Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
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Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling
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“Low-Cost” Recycling
Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
Material Solutions
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Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling
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Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling
Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
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Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org
“Low-Cost” Recycling Material
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And Some Finds Its Way to Streams, Rivers and Oceans
Photo: Honolulu Civil Beat
Photo: Discovery News
Photo: http://genesis-chiropractic.com
Photo: Getty Images
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And Some Can End Up in the Food Chain
Photo: www.plasticpollutioncoaliton.org
Photo: Vegalante
Image: Vegalante
Photo: Chris Jordan
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Interactions with animals not always positive Material Solutions
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Chris Jordan Midway Film
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MidwayFilm.com
The plight of 10’s of thousands of nesting Albatross
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Plastics are being ingested by many different species of fish Material Solutions
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Growing Efforts to Tie Plastics to Health Issues Material Solutions
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Can’t we recover these plastics? Material Solutions
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Most “Difficult” Plastic Streams are sent to China for Recycling
Photos from Scrap Magazine
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Photo: Basel Action Network
Often the recyclers in developing countries are the source of the pollution
Photo: Scrap Magazine
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'Out to Sea – The Plastic Garbage Project just opened in the Zurich Museum of Design. Every 15 seconds this amount of plastic garbage gets released into the sea
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Procurement Processing Selling
Traditional Plastics Business Model Sustainable Business Model
Plentiful and growing supply!
Lower cost and not tied to oil
Lower Capital Costs
80 to 90% LOWER Energy
Saves 1-3 tons CO2/ton plastic
Closing the Loop
More Flexible Plant Sustainable Products
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The first global plastics “recycling” company
MBA is not only the technology leader – but the first global plas0cs recycling company
CA, USA First
production Plant
China 2006
Austria 2006
UK 2010
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MBA CHINA
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MBA UK
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MBA AUSTRIA
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MBA short video
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Our Technology, Scale and Scope Allows Us to Close the Loop
U8lize proprietary mechanical separa8on process to isolate and
purify high-‐value plas8cs
Operate in geographic loca8ons where durable goods are recycled in large quan88es
Procure plas8cs-‐rich shredder residue from recycling partners
Provide customers with unique global offering of PCR plas8cs
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Does Anyone Care?
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"42% of plastic is recycled and 58% of plastic not in contact with food is recycled"
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Green Procurement Becomes Real
Blue Angel (Germany) Ecomark (Japan)
Nordic Swan
TCO Development (Sweden)
Terrachoice (Canada)
TED (EU Computer Mfgrs Assoc)
Ecoflower (EU)
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Leading Organiza8ons Like the WEF Understand the Importance of Resource Recovery
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Finally, someone invented a way to clean up the e-waste left over when all that technology goes out of date in the next minute and a half.
MBA Polymers, Inc.
Michael Biddle
E-Waste Meets Its Re-Maker
By LAURA A. LOCKE/SAN FRANCISCO
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idea innova
tion progression
The Technical Plastics Recycling Pioneer
President and Founder, MBA Polymers
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Intel Tech Laureate for 2006
Dr. Craig BarreW, Intel Chairman, presents the award and grills Dr. Biddle over dinner all night about MBA‘s technology. Bill Gates also gets the Humanitarian Award the same night.
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Thomas Alva Edison Award for Innova8on, 2002
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One of the World‘s Top 100 Global CleanTech Companies
Selected as one of the top 100 CleanTech companies in the World in both 2009 and 2010
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MBA Polymers Named GoingGreen Silicon Valley Global 200 Company of the Year
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Winner: Materials & Resources 2013
& Grand Prize Winner
Reuters: “If the Nobel society had an award for sustainability, it would resemble the Katerva awards, a new international prize for the most promising ideas and efforts to advance the planet toward sustainability.”
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The 2012 Göteborg Award "The Nobel Prize in Environment"
“EXTRAORDINARY DRIVES TO CLOSE THE LOOP GIVE BIDDLE AND SÖDERBERG THE
GOTHENBURG AWARD”
2009 2010
2011
2002 2007
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Over 1,000 comments, questions, etc.
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Citizens all around the planet really care!
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then the state of the environment should be driving innovation around the world. And indeed it is.
Executive produced by SHFT co-founders Peter Glatzer and Adrian Grenier and sponsored by Ford Motor Company. Learn more about the people who are leading the world toward a more sustainable future -- and inspiring everyone they touch along the way.
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