David McNamara is a Polymer Chemist and for 20 years has worked in a broad variety of senior roles in the telecommunications, construction, waste and recycling industries with a proven track record in structuring and developing companies into efficient, profitable businesses. In 2006 David worked for a Venture Capitalist that had made a number of investments in the recycling sector and in 2007 was appointed to lead the Technology development for one of those ventures, processing mixed waste plastics into liquid fuels. David now leads the Technology development and implementation programme for Plastic Energy, based in its new Innovation Centre in the Olympic Park, London. Plastic Energy – with industrial plants in Seville and Almeria – is the only company in the world to have successfully converted end-of-life plastic feedstocks continuously at a commercial level, not in laboratory conditions or using expensively procured plastics, and has plans to expand into the USA, South America and Europe.
Giovanni Armando is West Africa Programs Coordinator for the Italian NGO L.V.I.A. In 1998 Giovanni got a PhD in earth Science in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was country rapresentative for L.V.I.A. in different countries: Burkina faso, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau. L.V.I.A., dealing with solidarity and international cooperation for 51 years, is involved in Africa with the aim of fighting social inequality, food insecurity and poverty and of operating concretely for peace and human development. Since 1998 L.V.I.A. created plastic waste treatment centers in Africa. From the first built in Senegal, then they build other centers in mozambico, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
Juan Carlos Seguro is the legal rapresentative of “Eco-Muevete Seguro”, a company that makes bicycles from plastic waste, based in Medellin, Colombia.
The mission is distribute and promote bicycles with recycled material of the best quality and with ecological technology, thinking about the environment and the physical and spiritual health of people, promoting a healthy life in a friendly environment.
