Feasibility & Desirability: How Bosch built a drill from post-consumer recycled plastics
Can recycled plastics match virgin quality? Isabelle Gola on Bosch's pilot: 17-year-old tools, 500K data points, drop tests, same price…
Featured Guest
Patrick Hypscher
8 episodes featuring this guest
Post-Consumer Recyclate: How to get organisational buy-in – The Vorwerk Case
Which barriers had to be addressed, including quality perceptions, pricing constraints, and internal skepticism. Which factors help create sustainability impact.
Recycled Plastics: How premium brands build a reliable supply – the HolyPoly approach
This conversation explores future of plastics recycling, highlighting challenges and opportunities, impact of regulatory changes, supply and demand dynamics.
PadMad – Upcycling Textiles for Menstrual Health & Girl’s Education
This crisis leads to girls missing school and exams, forces them to improvise pads with unhygienic materials, and leaves them…
Sea Ventures – Turning Fish Waste into Animal Feed
Sea Ventures upcycles 60-70% fish waste into animal feed - Kenya gap 33M tons (needs 55M, produces 22M). Women training,…
E-Waste Initiative Kenya – Repairing and Reusing Electronics
EWIK repairs refurbishes e-waste Nairobi/5 cities, 6-month youth training with young mothers childcare support, research mapping value chain for EPR…
Africa Collect Textiles and Green Forest Solutions – The need for global EPR systems
ACT tackles textile waste through collection/upcycling. Alternate EPR pilot: Netherlands schemes pay fees for Kenya-bound secondhand, funding infrastructure.
Taka Taka Solutions – Waste Collection in Kenya
Taka Taka competes against $1/ton dump sites with zero gate fees - moved from premium to below-average pricing, now pivoting…