Uncovered: Sustainability

In this episode, you’ll dive into the challenges of one of the world’s biggest integrated bottle recycling scheme. We’ll explore how Romania, a country with one of the lowest recycling rates in Europe, is turning things around with a unique partnership involving RetuRO, drinks producers and brewers. Make no doubt this is a recycling revolution aiming to quickly change the environmental landscape by removing metal, primary glass and plastic drink packaging and making them worth something to return. We’ll look at their goal of collecting 7 billion containers a year. And most importantly, what exciting plans they’ve got for the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we’re tackling a huge challenge: making the textile industry, especially jeans, more eco-friendly. We’ll explain the challenge of recycling blended material and how SANKO, one of the world's biggest jeans manufacturers, is leading the way with a new circular approach to making clothes. We show what is needed to make such a big change. We explore the EU’s mission to eliminate all textile landfills by 2025. Most importantly, we show how each of us can play a part in caring for our clothes and planet today. Guests: Anne Marie Noorland  works on the circular business development team at SANKO.Julia Schell and Joost van Dun work in circular banking at ING who helped SANKO create their plans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The story of how one in every five lightbulbs in New York City will be powered by renewable hydro energy from Canada. We hear how one of North America’s biggest clean energy projects was created in tune with the environment and people’s homes. Champlain Hudson Power Express moves energy hundreds of miles from Northern Canada to power New York by a sustainably built, buried power line. This is how they are making it happen. Brian Kubeck from TDI, developer of Champlain Hudson Power Express.Sven Wellock from ING. Host: Katie PrescottSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Figures suggest every cup of coffee that’s produced, on average, destroys around 5 cm squared of rainforest. From next year, coffee will not be allowed to enter the EU market unless it’s deforestation free. So you have to prove it. Coffee changes hands so many times that producers and suppliers have to work on one big thing; “traceability” and reduce the number of people who own it. In this episode we go to a coffee plantation in Uganda to find out how one of the world's biggest coffee companies is rewriting the rules on making clean coffee. Guests: Justin Archer. Head of Sustainability, Sucafina. Louis Prieur from ING. Host: Katie PrescottSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Find out how one of the world's best known office area was rebuilt. Manhattan West was poorly linked with lots of small undesirable buildings. Post COVID companies need to sell their offices to employees and make them a destination rather than an existence. This is about how you sustainably transform tired 1980’s blocks, in the world’s most famous city, into an inspirational centrepiece, praised by architects around the world. And just as importantly how you finance it. Lisa Brylowski, VP of Portfolio Management at Brookfield Property Group Alexander Piur from ING Host: Katie PrescottSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.