Eliminating the Idea of Waste with the TerraCycle Global Foundation (ADB CE Webinar Series, Session 05)

Thousands of tons of plastic waste are polluting Thailand’s canals, rivers, and seas every year. The TerraCycle Global Foundation collects and recycles that waste before it reaches and gets degraded and diluted across the ocean. In the space of 2 years, the Foundation has prevented over 560,000 kg of waste from entering the ocean.

Orathai Pongruktham

Dr. Orathai is an experienced Program Development Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. She is skilled in Linguistics, Science, Public Speaking, Curriculum Development, and Biology. Strong community and social services professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Aquatic Biology/Limnology from The University of Mississippi.

Christina Chun-Ling Ho

Christina Chun-Ling HO has been a Senior Specialist of TEPA since 1993. She led the effort to enact the Basic Environmental Law in Dec. 2002. This has become instrumental for the Green Transformation of her country through the successful execution of the Waste Management & Resource Recycling Program.

Since 2017, Ms. Ho has put much effort into the circular economy and helped build TCE100 by integrating plastics, WEEE, construction & demolition waste, and solar panel resource industrial supply chains.