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Rebecca Percasky

24 July 2023

Meet Rebecca Percasky, one of our notable alumni who completed a BSc in Plant and Microbial Sciences at UC in 2007. She is the Co-founder and CEO of Better Packaging Co.

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Rebecca Percasky holds a lifelong passion for positive environmental change coupled with a desire to do better business. 

Previously COO of tech start-up StarShipIT, she worked alongside courier companies and became cognisant of the growing repercussions of the amount of packaging waste being generated. As a result, Better Packaging Co was born in 2018. Rebecca’s now on a mission to combat pollution, poverty, and climate change through packaging. In 2020, Better Packaging launched POLLAST!C packaging made from 100% ocean bound pollution, a world first! She is a Cartier Women’s 2021 Laurette, a finalist in the Inspiring Women’s Leaders NZIBA Awards 2022, SheEO venture, and an Unreasonable Fellow.

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