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rx3 - 'rethink, recycle,
remake' - formerly known as the Market Development Programme
- is hosting the Sustainable Innovation Forum in order to
demonstrate opportunities working with waste resources on
the 27th April 2010 in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham,
Dublin.
The Forum, chaired by Dr John Bowman, will -
- present new thinking around sustainability and design
- highlight commercial opportunities working with waste
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- showcase recycled products and ideas that unite social,
economic and environmental values.
The event will showcase some of the best of what is being
achieved in sustainable innovation - both indigenously and
abroad.
KeyNote is Tom Szaky (28), Founder and CEO of TerraCycle,
which upcycles waste into consumer products for companies
like Walmart and Kraft. The company has invented whole new
supply chains in re-routing a channel that normally goes to
landfill and has challenged the existing economics of throwing
out something because it is cheaper, rather than reusing it
or recycling it.
Initially launching with a plant fertiliser (made from 'worm
poop'), TerraCycle has gone on to launch more than 100
products made from waste materials - launching a product nationally
every week over 2009!
TerraCycle is one of the fastest growing US companies and
Szaky has been named the No. 1 CEO in America's under 30.
The rx3 Sustainable Innovation
Forum will host the 6 short-listed candidates' presentations
for waste resource ideas from the 60
Green Minutes competition - announced earlier this
year - to a panel of Green Dragons, with a grand prize of
€10,000 for the winning idea.
An Ask the Experts session on Green Procurement is
also included in the day's events - where attendees are invited
to send questions to the rx3
team, which will be answered by an expert panel at the Forum.
There will also be financial and marketing experts presenting
on ways to work in challenging times. The range of interesting
speakers and panelists include Kevin O'Connor, Founder and
CEO Bioplastech and Rita Shah, Shabra Plastics, Winner of
the Permanent TSB Ethnic Entrepreneur of the year awards.
Exhibits at the event will include the short-listed student
commercial design work from the Trash
to Cash Competition and the work of the Resource Rediscovery
Centre.
rx3 was established by the Department
of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with a view
to developing recycling markets in Ireland and to reduce the
nation's dependence on markets abroad.
For more details on this exciting event, to learn more about
rx3 - or to register to attend
- Click Here
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