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SUMMARY:Commercialising Sustainability - Dr Mike Biddle\, Chief Executive 
 and Founder of MBA Polymers
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CONTACT:Dr Dick Fenner
DESCRIPTION:Dr Mike Biddle calls himself the “Garbage Man” and thinks 
 of garbage piles as ‘above ground mines’. Less than 10% of plastic tra
 sh is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the mas
 sively complicated waste management issues\, the problem of finding and so
 rting the different kinds. Biddle has developed a patented 30-step plastic
 s recycling system that includes magnetically extracting metals\, shreddin
 g the plastics\, sorting them by polymer type and producing graded pellets
  to be reused in industry – a process that takes less than a tenth of th
 e energy required to make virgin plastic from crude oil Dr. Michael Biddle
 \, was selected to receive the prestigious 2010 Economist Innovation Award
  for Energy and the Environment. His company MBA Polymers has achieved  a 
 plastics recycling solution for sustainability and has been selected as a 
 Going Green Silicon Valley Global 200 Winner. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, Engineering Department\, Trumpington Street
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