Sustainable Packaging: Treaties & Future Trends

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

For over 8 years, I have dedicated my career to generating awareness about and solving plastic pollution in Chile and abroad. As CEO of Plastic Oceans Chile and a member, I have done so mainly through advocacy, education, and multi-stakeholder engagement, including industry, government, consumer, nonprofit, and grassroots initiatives.

From the beginning, I have included the circular economy as a possible solution for this problem, and unfortunately, we have given disposable use to plastics. I'm a staunch believer that solutions need to be proposed while considering economic aspects as well to really be able to provide an alternative for the throw-away (linear) economy, where generating waste is still good for business, that we currently have.

Legislation has been part of my work as well. However, I´m not a lawyer or policymaker; over the years, society has moved beyond voluntary initiatives and is looking for effective ways for legislation to help solve this environmental crisis through bans, incentives, and other mechanisms to include all costs when putting a product in the market.

Over these years, we have seen the…