TERRACYCLE
Béla Domokos , CIO of TerraCycle , discusses the importance of an agile tech infrastructure in order to fulfil the company ’ s goa of a circular economy
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A side from COVID-19 , sustainability is arguably one of the foremost business challenges being grappled with across industry segments . Founded in 2001 , TerraCycle was established to deal with a singular problem in a focused way : the elimination of the world ’ s waste . Now operating in 21 countries around the world , the company offers a range of simple platforms to facilitate recycling and lead the global shift towards a more eco-friendly incarnation of the customer ’ s shopping experience , with particular attention paid to the removal of single-use packaging . As global enterprise reorients itself in order to meet the ‘ green ’ expectations of modern consumers , TerraCycle will play an important role in transforming inefficient linear systems to fully circular economies .
Speaking to us from an office building decorated in colourfully upcycled materials – old vinyl records arranged as hanging decorations , coats and old maps forming pictures on the walls – Béla Domokos , Chief Information Officer ( CIO ), makes
AUGUST 2020