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Creating a More Sustainable Plastics Industry

Dr. Mike Biddle

Founder and President, MBA Polymers Principal/Founder, Material Solutions

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Delivering resource efficiency solutions

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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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A Tale of Two Materials

Steel Recycling Rate is Much Higher

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25%

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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

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WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Japan


Automobile Recycling - Germany


Automobile and WEEE Recycling - Austria


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – The Netherlands


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – Germany


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - France


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Spain


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Switzerland


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling – South Korea


WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Recycling - Taiwan


Shredding to Liberate and Recover Metals


Remaining material is called “shredder residue”


Shredder residue from large appliances


Shredder residue from automobiles


Mixed Plastics from MRFS

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Density

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nylon PET PC/ABS

SAN PPO

POM

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PVC PPS PEI

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Plastics

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Material Solutions “Low-Cost” Recycling

Photos from Basel Action Network (BAN), www.ban.org



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“Low-Cost” Recycling


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“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


Interactions with animals not always positive Material Solutions


Chris Jordan Midway Film

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MidwayFilm.com

The plight of 10’s of thousands of nesting Albatross


Plastics are being ingested by many different species of fish Material Solutions


Growing Efforts to Tie Plastics to Health Issues Material Solutions

July 2012 confiden0al 39 Photo: Ocean Recovery Alliance, Doug Woodring

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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July 2012 confiden0al 48 Photo: Vegalante

'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

July 2012 confiden0al 49 Photos: Basel Action Network


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


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


MBA CHINA


MBA UK

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MBA AUSTRIA

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MBA short video


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


Does Anyone Care?

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"42% of plastic is recycled and 58% of plastic not in contact with food is recycled"


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


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.


Thomas Alva Edison Award for Innova8on, 2002


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


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.”


The 2012 Göteborg Award "The Nobel Prize in Environment"

“EXTRAORDINARY DRIVES TO CLOSE THE LOOP GIVE BIDDLE AND SÖDERBERG THE

GOTHENBURG AWARD”

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