Environment and Sustainability

Relying on her background in chemical engineering, Annemieke has over 20 years’ experience in coordinating and setting up experimental verification programmes and conducting research in a wide range of complex environments. Her broad professional knowledge, combined with her inner drive and natural organisational and people skills, make Annemieke the supporting lifeline for many technological developments.

“Wouldn't it be nice if we had to explain to our grandchildren what garbage is?”. Ardi Dortmans is director of science at Circular Economy & Environment. Both inside and outside TNO he links research to what society needs. In this way, the research field is always moving.

Caroli works on sustainable change for global issues around packaging, plastics and microplastics. As a professional packaging expert, she understands the complex chains of packaging. As a bioplastics expert, she works on new sustainable concepts for packaging and products that fit within the circular economy worldwide. To this end, she works closely with all links in the value chain: from sourcing a raw material to recycling into new raw material.

Bioplastics, Biobased plastics, Biowaste plastics, Circular Plastics, Circular Economy.

Erlend has over 15 years' experience in business and sales development, fulfilling account management and sales management roles in challenging business-to-business and business-to-government environments.

Esther is committed to accelerating the transition towards using circular plastics and has a clear vision on how to reach those goals. Her work on complex issues requires her to collaborate intensively with small and large companies across the whole value chain, as well as with national and European inter-branch organisations and government agencies.