How To Make Plastic From Seaweed | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
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How To Make Plastic From Seaweed | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
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Glad they're focusing on changing companies' usage instead of putting the responsibility on the consumers
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"We're not asking individuals to make those choices, we're asking the corporations and the brand most responsible for producing waste to switch to our material." Aaahh..music to the ears! Love that
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I REALLY hope this works and catches on. Microplastics are everywhere now. In the ocean, our drinking water, our food and in our bodies right now. I'm of the opinion that in a decade or two it will be discovered just how bad plastics really are to our health. I hope that before then we can be phasing out plastic use with something like this.
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Solving the problem of plastics is so huge, but every time one of these stories is done, scientists have progressed further and further into making viable sustainable or regenerative alternatives. I’m so hopeful!
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Truly amazing technology. They are taking the right path to actually achieve results too by not asking consumers to choose it and making it as similar to the amazing properties of plastic as possible.
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I like the idea of getting seaweed from ocean then turn it into plastic that degrades faster than regular plastic.
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Investing appropriately today can save you a whole lot of stress in the nearest future
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Big respect to seaweed farmers 🧑🌾
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Wow this is literally the ocean trying to save itself. Nature is so beautiful 😢
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😮 AMAZING 👏 ... Hope this will be successful... hope many enterprises, government & people will look on to it or implement on pro-environmental ways to drastically minimize plastic waste...
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fantastic...i hope this woman succeeds as this is a great idea
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I'd say getting oil out if the earth to transform to plastics is pretty expensive. If more manufacturers sign up to this product, the cheaper it will get... It's a no brainer.
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Sargassum seaweed blooms have become a big issue in the Caribbean . This would be a great use for the seaweed!
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As long as the proccess of making it doesnt make it toxic or take super high energy then i'm in
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This is such a brilliant idea! I really love this! Hope big industries like P&G can take over this idea and spread it to their companies. Much faster way considering the number of companies they have under their umbrella. Big thanks to the scientists and farmers doing this!
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Finally a safer option for the betterment of the world
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Life changing 🙌🏼 We NEED to fix our food packaging immediately. It’s literally impossible to buy food plastic free, at least where I live and they’re not recyclable either.
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Hope that your start up company could start commercial production of plastic sheets out of seaweeds early 2023!!! Our country, the Philippines could be considered to be one of your supplier of seaweeds!!!
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I think this has a lot more potential than most of the "environmentally friendly" products you have featured. I assume it's only suitable for dry applications (basically any biodegradeable plastic replacement is, because if it was highly water-repellant, it would also repell microbes), but that's still a lot of applications. and there are many countries with bad enough waste management (which realistically means a lack of trash-fired powerplants) that making packaging biodegradeable helps a lot.
