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5 great Aussies making a real change with clean money
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We speak to Jordy Kay from Great Wrap, Jeanine Hourani from Road to Refuge, and Nick Chiarelli and Tim Silverwood from the Ocean Impact Organisation to find out how they’r e creating waves when it comes to social justice and the planet
Great Wrap
Have you ever thought about how much cling wrap the hospitality industry uses on any given day? How much wrap do you think wineries use to encase their pallets of wine? What about non-hospitality businesses, which ship billions of pallets around the world each year? The answer is a lot. A single winery, in fact, can use up to 3.5 million metres of plastic wrap in a single year. So while using reusable alternatives at home is great, industrial waste is still a huge problem and we need bigger and more scalable solutions if we’re really going to make an impact. Bank Australia customer Jordy Kay has one of those solutions. Jordy is the founder and CEO of Great Wrap, an Australian company that’s behind the world’s first compostable stretch wrap. Having started his career in the natural wine business, Jordy simply “couldn’t unsee” the staggering amount of plastic wrap the industry was churning through on a daily basis. “The most effective way that we can solve plastic waste and plastic pollution is through working with businesses, big or small, to begin changing their impact,” says Jordy. “A lot of businesses might claim to be ‘green’, but when you look behind the curtains, there are often huge problems. So I think going B2B, like we are, is a great starting point.”