With a background in industrial engineering, Jan Hommen found his passion and interest within the circular economy field. He started by working with TOMRA during his master thesis, and he is now working full-time in the circular economy department.

TOMRA is a Norwegian company that focuses on the technology for waste collection, recycling, and also food-processing. In this podcast, we identified the challenges in achieving circularity and learned the importance of working interdisciplinary to close the loop at different ends of the value chain. Households and industries play a big role in the circular economy, as it determines the waste composition and creates the demand across the system.

We also heard exciting news from Jan that there has been an increasing trend to incorporate waste collection and recycling in business models. It is a wind of change blown by a generation that is driven by passion and a sense of responsibility for our future!

You can find out more and reach out to Jan via LinkedIn.