User:Professor Edward Kosior/sandbox

Edward Kosior has a Bachelor of Applied Chemistry and Diploma of Education from Melbourne University and Masters of Engineering Science in Polymer Engineering from Monash University Australia.

From 1975 to 1997 he worked at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where he reached the level of Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering teaching polymer engineering and supervising PhD and MEng students. He was the inaugural Director of the RMIT Polymer Technology Centre that conducted industry focused polymer research into recycling.

He joined Visy Industries in 1997 and was based in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia where he was the Senior Research and Development Manager for Visy Recycling. In this role he was responsible for the plant design and business development of markets for recycled plastics.

In 2005 he set up Nextek Ltd in London. This involved overall management of the business and responsibility for the research and development activities of Nextek. Activities include strategic advice and consulting to Fortune 500 organisations on end of life options for packaging wastes as well as complex materials. Projects delivered include:

UK: Development of a food-grade Polypropylene (PP) recycling process and large scale trials Switzerland: Strategic advice and options for using recycled materials in branded products Australia and New Zealand: Design and commissioning large new plastic recycling facilities USA: Re-design of large scale PET recycling facility to increase output and quality targets UK: Design of recycling plant for the recovery of post-consumer films plastics and shopping bags Canada: Best practice in collection and reprocessing of post-consumer plastic films UK: Development of detectable black colourants for automatic sorting of plastics packaging UK: Development of fluorescent markers for the high speed sorting of post-consumer plastics packaging UK - Malaysia: Development of bio-based meat and fruit packaging with extended shelf-life UK – India: Development of affordable films with controlled permeability for food waste reduction

In 2020 he launched NEXTLOOPP, the multi-participant project aimed at closing the loop on food-grade PP

He is an Honorary Professor at Brunel University London, at the Wolfson Materials Processing Centre. He is a Fellow of The Society of Plastics Engineers (FSPE), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FMMM), and a Fellow of Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).

He has won numerous awards, one of which is the Prince Philip Medal for “Polymers in the service of Man”.

He provides support to organisations such as the Earth Champions Foundation, Plastics Oceans and PEW Foundation Trust on the Projects “Stopping Ocean Plastics” and "Breaking the Plastic Wave".

He holds several patents for recycling plastics and been instrumental in the introduction of recycled plastics into food packaging in Europe and Australia (PET, HDPE and PP).

His goals are to help preserve and improve the natural environment through novel technologies that reduce waste generation and increase the closed loop economy that promotes high efficiencies in the use of limited resources and truly sustainable materials. He is also working on mitigating plastics in oceans and encouraging adoption of science and best practices in avoiding the environmental problems facing developing countries.