{"id":79186,"date":"2020-10-01T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/terracycle-ceo-tom-szaky-on-why-caring-about-recycling-isnt-enough\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:05:25","slug":"terracycle-ceo-tom-szaky-on-why-caring-about-recycling-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/terracycle-ceo-tom-szaky-on-why-caring-about-recycling-isnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"#TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on why \u2018caring\u2019 about recycling isn\u2019t enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on why \u2018caring\u2019 about recycling isn\u2019t enough<\/strong>”
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\n Tom Szaky will be speaking at our online event,\u00a0TNW 2020 about the impact COVID-19 has had on waste management and recycling. To find out more about his talk and the other speakers you can see with your (free) ticket, check out our tracks here.<\/em><\/p>\n

Waste is an omnipresent problem \u2014 something that simultaneously impacts our environment, global economy, and personal lives. Given that plastic waste alone is projected to be as high as 53 billion pounds a year by 2030<\/a>, we cannot ignore it. According to TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky, the problem isn\u2019t that we\u2019re ignoring, it the problem is that it\u2019s physically difficult for the individual to do anything about it.<\/p>\n

Szaky says waste has always been a problem, but public awareness really went up in the 21st century, as the rise of internet interest in things such as the impact of waste and ocean plastics moved it from a problem to a crisis. As Szaky says, there\u2019s no \u201cgood consumption,\u201d and we all know much more about the issue than we used to. But as much as we might want to partake of the recycle\/reduce\/reuse solution, the shortcomings aren\u2019t necessarily on us. Says Szaky,\u00a0\u201cWe all agree that it\u2019s the issue, and we all have to work, but what do we do to actually make it a reality?\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite social<\/a> awareness and the efforts on the part of passionate citizens, not enough waste is being recycled \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s actually been declining as an industry\u2026 and of course it\u2019s with great irony because consumers are waking up at the very same time. As consumers care more, the systems that are there to help them are steadily decreasing and decreasing.\u201d He\u2019s not wrong \u2014 last year hundreds of American cities<\/a> canceled their recycling programs after China, the big buyer for recycled materials, stopped accepting most of our refuse. This led to recycling programs being financially untenable<\/a> for many places, and often the carefully sorted things you try to recycle in good faith wind up in the garbage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not enough for us to care \u2014 we need to have a support system for that interest. But Szaky says that often, systems such as these require a challenge to change. \u201cIt requires these negatives for people to go there voluntarily. We\u2019re very apathetic.\u201d While the bigger picture isn\u2019t pretty, the fact that more people are aware of it and demanding change is a positive.<\/p>\n

Want to hear Szaky talk about the impact the global pandemic has had on recycling? Claim your free ticket to TNW 2020 and tune into his talk.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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