A Discussion With Jim Andrew, PepsiCo’s Chief Sustainability Officer: Getting Closer To Global Plastic Circularity

As the hottest summer on record winds down and populations across the globe battle the tumultuous effects of climate change, it’s an ideal time to consider how we, as investors, corporations and consumers, can make global plastic circularity an achievable goal. While we continue to make progress in our work, what’s become strikingly evident with each passing year is the need to do more, faster. To solve enormous environmental challenges like the plastic waste crisis as well as the related impacts on climate change, we need all actors working together. We simply have too much to do, the problems are too complex, and time is not on our side.

Fortunately, there are many ways stakeholders can take collective action – with peers, local communities, and governments – to expedite our path towards a wholly different way of addressing our relationship with plastic and plastic waste.