Up to four million tons of plastic end up in the sea every year. Christian Schiller wants to digitize the circular economy.
Dusseldorf Christian Schiller saw the crisis with his own eyes. After working as head of Germany at BlaBlaCar, he went on a world tour. “I was away for a year – a classic sabbatical,” he says. His journey also took him by ship through the Caribbean, from Colombia to Panama. He involuntarily came into contact with the topic of plastic waste there, he recalls.
On the open sea he had to sail through a dense, hundreds of meters long carpet of algae and plastic waste. “It stunk like a beast. I was deeply shocked.”
At the time he thought: “I want to do something about the crisis.” And so the sabbatical changed his career from the ground up. He founded the online exchange Cirplus to solve the global plastic waste crisis. Not without self-interest: when he began to deal more intensively with plastics, he quickly realized that there was business with recycled plastic.
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