The audacious plan to raise $US20 billion annually from the plastics industry to self-fund reformation was seeded early in the nearly four years it has taken the iron ore billionaire to complete a PhD in marine biology.
Andrew Forrest has no doubt his potential $US300 million investment in an attempt to free the world’s oceans from the tightening straitjacket of plastics will inspire awe and scepticism in equal measure.
But it is, after all, the inertia of mainstream dubiety that gifts opportunity to entrepreneurs like Forrest to first prosper then proselytise.
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Matthew Stevens writes on business, specialising in mining, energy and opinion. Matthew is a senior business writer and columnist. Email Matthew at matthew.stevens@afr.com.au
