00:34:03 Ashrith Varidhireddy: Sad yes the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii and extreme heat in parts of the country! 00:34:58 Ashrith Varidhireddy: Thank you so much Mark, welcome Ramona Liberoff! 00:35:30 T Todd Elvins: Ramona Liberoff is the Executive Director of PACE (Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy). Her role is to manage the stakeholders within PACE, who include leading corporates, governments, academics and innovators, to achieve the goal of doubling circularity. Prior to joining WRI, Ramona worked at the intersection of global climate, innovation, and finance, at Roots of Impact, as the CEO of SPRING Accelerator, and as COO of the Innogy Innovation Hub, after a career of leading innovation for multinationals such as Unilever and Pepsico. She has founded several innovative businesses including circular transport and energy, and funded more than twenty, as well as mentoring several hundred impact start-ups. 00:36:01 T Todd Elvins: https://pacecircular.org/ 00:36:39 T Todd Elvins: If you have a question for the guest speaker, please click Q&A at the bottom of the Zoom window. You can then upvote someone else’s question or add your own. 00:45:57 Steven Knudsen: National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown and Pittsburgh is doing a lot for circular economy, in particular dealing with plastics and also rare earth minerals. 00:46:26 T Todd Elvins: If you have a question for the guest speaker, please click Q&A at the bottom of the Zoom window. You can then upvote someone else’s question or add your own. 00:47:12 Ashrith Varidhireddy: Thank you very much Ramona for the PACE presentation! 00:47:29 Tom Charlesworth: What is potential of CCU ias source for rare minerals? 00:47:30 Kalpana: When consumers understand value of waste or things we collect and staying around in homes, it would get traction for circular economy. 00:48:06 T Todd Elvins: Tom, could you please ask your question in the Q&A 00:48:27 T Todd Elvins: Kalpana, could you please ask your question in the Q&A 00:48:38 Tom Charlesworth: What is potential for use of AI in circular economy? 00:48:49 Vince Schutt: We do need to market — how do we market when the dominance of social media platforms, in and of themselves, reject the message we are trying to send. 00:48:58 T Todd Elvins: Tom, could you please ask your question in the Q&A 00:49:19 T Todd Elvins: Vince, could you plz ask your question in the Q&A 00:49:28 Vince Schutt: Sure ty 00:49:30 Kalpana: In buildings, we try to reuse materials. For example concrete can be reused but sometimes laws in the US prevent us from using. 00:49:30 Cynthia Carr: How is your work connected to the development of battery recycling? This seems to be happening now and is of some interest. https://electrek.co/2023/02/21/worlds-largest-battery-recycler-first-us-li-ion-recycling-factory/ 00:49:32 Harold Ferber: You will need to show that there is an economic case re jobs and income in the circular economy to replace those that are lost from the extractive economy 00:49:48 Tom Charlesworth: I can't type that well 00:50:16 T Todd Elvins: Cynthia, could you plz ask your question in the Q&A 00:52:36 Beth: don't forget compost as a facet of waste management that facilitates green house gas reduction and promotes production efficiency. refer to CA bill SB1383 and the COP26 keynote of 44% carbon sequestration goals - waste management has a place in carbon reduction and production efficiencies and necessitates more compost facilities which could be expedited by public funding 00:52:42 Michael Debbas: I like the idea of reducing world consumption. That removes a huge amount of carbon from the waste stream and environment. 00:53:21 Cynthia Carr: sorry, first time! 00:53:46 CCL Mid-Atlantic Line 2: What would be the best example of circularity in action that we could share with presentation audiences or legislators in meetings? 00:54:35 Robert Cruthis: Do you think the focus on ESG will help push these initiatives forward? And are you working with the Open Compute Project to influence supply chain evolution? 00:54:59 T Todd Elvins: CCL Mid Atlantic Line 2, could you plz ask your question in the Q&A 00:55:20 T Todd Elvins: Robert, could you plz ask your question in the Q&A 00:55:55 Justin Ciampa: What are the best ways to require producers to prove their products are safe and will be reused so we can prevent the hell unleashed by PFAS chemicals which contaminate 50% of drinking water in the USA according to the US Geological Serrvice? 00:55:59 Michael Debbas: Consumerism will be the bane of us if we don't simplify our lifestyles around the world, starting in the developed countries. Eliminate most non-essential driving and flying 00:58:19 Ashrith Varidhireddy: Thank you very much for the answers! 01:00:32 Ramona Liberoff: Hi tom-on your question of AI, there’s a lot of existing work with businesses such as Grey Parrot for better more efficient plastic recycling and other complex recycling streams, there is also great potential on better material traceability and modelling of material streams. However, a lot of the technical challenges in CE are (unsurprisingly) around materials rather than digital. 01:02:35 Deeya Mulchandani: What was the program called again? 01:02:40 Tom Charlesworth: Thanks 01:02:41 Ramona Liberoff: In terms of examples of circularity in action: I’d point to things like mining best practices that reuse water, protect biodiversity and treat mining tailings (it’s more expensive to have a circular mine, but vital if we’re going to continue to support responsible extraction); there’s also a lot of brilliant eco design work that goes on. I’d look at the Ellen MacArthur foundation and Circle Economy website for examples (on legislation, France’s 130 article zero waste law includes extended producer responsibility at a level seen almost nowhere else, so that’s interesting too). 01:10:08 George - Anchorage: Love Joe Robertson! 01:14:21 T Todd Elvins: Register for our Inclusion Conference here https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-change-conferences/inclusion/ 01:14:39 T Todd Elvins: It's FREE 01:15:06 Ashrith Varidhireddy: I registered for the inclusion conference! 01:15:33 Ramona Liberoff: It was wonderful to meet everyone, and thank you for all that you do. My email: ramona.liberoff@pacecircular.org and our website www.pacecircular.org, very happy for feedback or ideas! 01:15:38 Citizens Climate Education: cclusa.org/log-action cclusa.org/log-meeting-video 01:15:45 T Todd Elvins: Fall conference is here, https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-change-conferences/fall/ 01:15:57 T Todd Elvins: Thank you Ramona! 01:15:58 Citizens Climate Education: https://cclusa.org/log-action 01:16:43 Ashrith Varidhireddy: Thank you everyone so much, have a fabulous rest of weekend and month! 01:16:51 Citizens Climate Education: Tutorial for logging a meeting action https://cclusa.org/log-meeting-video