Larissa said at Sustainability LIVE: The US Summit. She obtained a degree in chemical engineering from the University of São Paulo before earning a postgraduate degree in ESG and Corporate Sustainability from Fundação Getulio Vargas( FGV).
“ I started to design all the reactions, engineering things all the time, then I got so attracted to recycling because it’ s a new world. You have lots of new opportunities, so I started looking a little more into lifecycle assessments, sustainability and how our targets can be achieved through recycling.”
Larissa spent two years with BASF before joining Valgroup in 2018 and was then named Director of Sustainability in 2025.“ I completely fell in love with sustainability,” she says.
2,000
truckloads of plastic waste that are dumped into Earth’ s oceans, rivers and lakes every day