David Katz: The surprising solution to ocean plastic
David Katz: Wat als je plastic in baar geld zou kunnen veranderen?
David is founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, the world’s only organization to monetize plastic waste and provide an opportunity for the world's disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. Full bio
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the fastest rate of extinction ever,
tempo van uitsterven ooit
standing in front of you,
thing we need to do
you're going to panic;
for the ocean?
niet voor de oceaan?
over 300 million ton
150 million ton already there.
150 miljoen ton die er al is.
van het oceaanplastic
that have extreme poverty.
met extreme armoede.
grootste keten van winkels
is available to be purchased
kan worden gekocht
high-efficiency stoves.
efficiënte kachels.
en zich niet kan veroorloven.
are more like community centers,
zijn eerder buurthuizen,
materiaal op te halen,
she gets to bring the material back to us,
brengt ze het naar ons,
we check it for quality,
into her account.
ervan op haar rekening.
into an online account for her.
op een onlinerekening.
it becomes an asset
wordt het een troef
and get it ready for export.
klaar voor de export.
than walking over acres of diamonds.
over velden van diamanten.
no way to exchange them,
geen manier om ze om te wisselen,
daughters' school tuition
leveranciers van grote merken,
the use of social plastic
voor consumentengoederen,
directly into their manufacturing.
in hun productie gebruikt.
from ocean-bound waterways
uit in zee uitmondende waterwegen
offergaven aan te bieden,
with an impoverished church in Cairo.
koppelen aan een verarmde kerk in Caïro.
to deposit that value
around the world.
hundreds around the world.
over de hele wereld op te halen.
plastic-neutral program.
programma investeerde.
in recycling infrastructure
in recycling infrastructuur
weegschaal en een telefoon
van betalen per gewicht,
sociale impact krijgen.
currency that, when used,
verhandelbare valuta die bij gebruik
and cleans the environment
it's social plastic,
het is sociaal plastic,
wordt overgebracht
of the people who encounter it,
die het ontmoet,
nog steeds aanwezig als afval.
a four-trillion-dollar value.
is managed and supported
beheerd en ondersteund
authentic transfer of value globally.
authentieke waardeoverdracht zorgt.
in Vancouver or Berlin,
in Vancouver of Berlijn deponeren
building bricks or cell phone minutes
of telefoneer-minuten voor kunnen krijgen
at a center in Port-au-Prince,
kunnen deponeren
cooking fuel or cash
and the Philippines.
voor Brazilië geselecteerd.
to India and Ethiopia.
op India en Ethiopië.
volumes every day.
onze inzamelingvolumes.
of our program with Henkel,
over 100 million kilograms
om per jaar meer dan 100 miljoen kilogram
hundreds of millions of dollars
honderden miljoenen dollars
cleaning the ocean is futile.
de oceaan is misschien [niet] zinloos.
voor de mensheid kunnen zijn.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Katz - Plastics alchemistDavid is founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, the world’s only organization to monetize plastic waste and provide an opportunity for the world's disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency.
Why you should listen
David Katz is the founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, an internationally recognized solution to ocean plastic. The Plastic Bank is a global network of micro-recycling markets that empower the poor to transcend poverty by cleaning the environment. It's an eco-system that provides an opportunity for the world to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. Global partners include IBM, Shell Energy and Henkel.
Katz is the recipient of the 2017 United Nations Lighthouse award for Planetary Health, recipient of the Paris Climate Conference Sustainia community award, is the Past President of the Vancouver Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), and named the Entrepreneur Organizations, Global Citizen. He has also been named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine.
His humanitarian work has earned him international recognition. Katz has been featured in Forbes, TIME Magazine, Fast Company and National Geographic. He's featured in an award-winning documentary and starred in an international reality television show. David is a steward of the earth and a champion for the poor.
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