Dr. Ganesh Nagarajan is the Senior Director of Plastics at WM. He leads WM initiatives towards increasing recycling and recovery of plastic materials. He is additionally responsible for value creation and stakeholder engagement. Prior to WM, Dr. Nagarajan worked at LyondellBasell for over two decades in multiple roles including Application Development, Sales, Marketing & Business Management. He also supported the development of numerous recycling projects as a thematic expert for the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, as well as an Executive Advisory Board Member of Cyclyx. His international assignments include roles as Marketing and Sales Manager for Northeast Asia and Australia at Basell Asia Pacific Limited and as Managing Director for Basell Polyolefins India Limited.
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Carlos graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He worked in industry before moving to the United Kingdom, to do his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge. During his doctoral research and subsequently as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, he developed the basis of the Enval process to recycle plastic aluminium laminate pouches, sachets, tubes, etc.
As a result, Carlos founded Enval where he is CEO. The Company now has a commercial plant recycling laminates in the UK and is in the process of installing further units in other locations. Enval has also started to develop recycling processes for other materials, creating a link between the packaging world and the waste handling sector.
Jesus Atias is the North America Sustainability manager for Packaging & Specialty Plastics. Jesus is responsible for expanding the Hefty® EnergyBag® program, which represents a collaboration with strategic customer Reynolds Consumer Products and participating communities, diverting more plastics from landfill by converting them to valuable energy resources. He focuses on program growth and identifying partners across the value chain, including new end markets and applications. He is managing Dow’s responsibilities as the first Hefty® EnergyBag® program launches in Canada.
Jeremy has been leading the development, operation, and commercialization of Alterra’s Plastics Circularity technology since 2011 when he joined a very small team working out of an entrepreneurial garage in Akron, OH, USA. He is a co-inventor of the technology with four published patents and numerous trade secrets. Previously, he spent 12 years at GE leading manufacturing plants within its Healthcare and Lighting divisions. His passion is inspiring and mentoring future leaders to carry on the responsibility of creating a cleaner planet for future generations by keeping discarded plastic in the economy and out of the environment, thus replacing virgin, fossil-derived resources. Jeremy earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and an MBA in Banking & Finance from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Mfg. Expert.
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Robert Flores is Vice President of Sustainability at Berry Global. Flores leads execution of the Company’s ambitious Impact 2025 sustainability strategy. This strategy includes 100% of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable and have an average of 10% recycled content by 2025. Berry also announced a 2030 goal of 30% circular plastics across FMCG packaging.
As a long-time sustainability professional and plastics expert, Flores has worked with local, national, and global organizations, including the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Alliance to End Plastic Waste, and Association of Plastic Recyclers, to foster a circular economy.
Mark Agerton has 37 years of experience in the industry as a Chemical Engineer, with 29 of those years spent at P&G. During his time at P&G, he has worked in various roles within the Engineering, FemCare, and HairCare organizations. For the past 12 years, his focus has been on Packaging, specifically in areas such as mold qualifications, polymeric structures, pigment orientation, and analysis of PCR recyclate and impurities. Currently, Mark's primary areas of focus are global sustainability, advanced and mechanical recycling, recycling infrastructure, and conducting Life Cycle Analyses.
