need to reduce landfills and methane emissions though investment in technology. Then, the following month he broke ground on his Australian company’s largest ever single investment - a $500m glass recycling factory outside Brisbane, Qld. In November, 2022, Pratt made his largest ever investment pledge. The $5 billion pledge, which he made to Caroline Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Australia, will be invested in recycling and clean energy infrastructure to create 5,000 well-paying, green collar, American manufacturing jobs over the next 10-years. Personal life Pratt sits on the National Board of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, and is also active in charity organizations throughout Australia and the United States. In 1998, he arranged for Muhammad Ali to visit Australia for the Australian Football League grand final, as well as for a subsequent trip two years later. More recently, on what would have been Ali's 80th birthday, Pratt donated $2 million to the Ali Center to further promote Ali's legacy. Pratt is a member of the Climate Group, an international environmental group founded by former British prime minister Tony Blair. He has been honoured for his efforts by Mikhail Gorbachev's Global Green USA and Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation. Pratt is a member of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. In 2007, Pratt committed to former President Clinton's Global Initiative to invest more than 1 billion over the ensuing decade in recycling infrastructure and clean energy. He fulfilled his pledge five years early. In 2009, Pratt was honored by the New York-based Foreign Policy Association with its Corporate Social Responsibility Award. Since taking over the company, Pratt has taken a strong interest in sustainable agriculture, food security, and water issues, stating that his motivation is 70% of his Australian customers are in the food and beverage sector. In April 2013, Pratt gave the keynote address at the Global Food Forum, an international conference on food security, which he organized in partnership with The Australian newspaper. He said it was possible for Australia to quadruple its current food production, through greater support for farmers and food companies, and to eventually feed 200 million people. The conference attracted leading political, agribusiness, food-industry, and academic figures. In October 2016, Pratt was the founding sponsor of The Wall Street Journal'''s inaugural U.S.-based Global Food Forum. In his opening remarks, Pratt called on food industry leaders to start a national