Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

Thin-plastic food wrappers make up half the garbage floating in our oceans, but they’re difficult to recycle. One company has invented a way to replace these plastics with seaweed. Now, it stands as a finalist for Tom Ford’s Plastic Innovation Prize worth more than $1 million.

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Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

[m.k.]

This product may be a bit more expensive to purchase, but the fact that it is edible, compostable, and truly biodegradable means the true cost of this product is very minute compared to the true cost of traditional plastic which is way to high in the long run. I cant wait for this product to be offered publicly. This is awesome!!

[zimcenzocassano]

Plastic made from seaweed and it’s edible? This is, by far, one of the magnificent achievements. Kudos to the whole team!

[tybronx]

They won 2nd place! That's so awesome! Congratulations to them, they're doing amazing work <333

[bruhmoment]

The Indian government should fund this asap and intervene at a very minute level and let these guys do their best. This is amazing.

[xanatax]

I LOVE how you can put food in it, then just throw the whole packet into boiling water, and eat the packaging. This is the way to revolutionize MREs & single-serving meals! 🥳🎉

[SohamGreens]

Hats off to Neha and Team
When the world is busy in making weapons, destroying environment in name of ease of living products,
This is called a sustainable real innovation.
Keep doing good work

[ASMRSOUNDQUEEN]

I don't mind paying higher price for plastics knowing I am reducing my carbon footprint! Wish then luck❤🎉

[janninmarie]

We always hear amazing creations like this but often never gets put out for public use for some reason.
I really do hope this gets mass produced worldwide.

[volcanyki]

I seriously cannot wait for this to become public for consumers this is such a big game changer for every one. Fantastic work to Neha and their team!!! 👏👏👏👏

[qonecsion]

Who cares about who wins the prizes, hats off to all the companies fighting for change! Y’all are the real hero’s of humanity and the world ❤

[jinks]

Wow a lot of people have guilt about polluting but she actually decided to do something about it. Such an impressive team.

[mariacrane]

Congratulations to zerocircle for winning second place! It's an incredible achievement, and they should be very proud of the work they do.

[apemancommeth]

This is what we need more of! Stop the gloom and doom, give people hope! I’m not saying not to warn people of problems we face, I’m saying explaining the problem and challenging people to find solutions is better than making them feel we’re doomed! Great job to all who are involved!

[joshuarichard]

I'm glad that "Insider Business" wanted to bring this innovation by Neha and team equal to the rest of the international researchers. I geneuinley think India is the future of Pure innovation with long term benefits and offcourse with minimum budget.

[elizabethkierere]

the way they did all this without even knowing the competition special. it shows they weren't just in it for the prize money. hope they won!!!

[neetdiaries]

A year back i saw neha's venture in some youtube video and was so faccinated by it. Shared on all of my socials and whenever i had a talk with people i did mention about it and wanting this news to go viral so that many could support it. Finally its getting the attention it is needed! Hope this venture be successful so that we all can eliminate atleast a small percent of today's living curse ‘plastic’!

[ogadlogadl]

I recall watching a video a many years ago about mushrooms being able to be molded into disposable containers, I was very excited and happy to see we could potentially use them for Togo boxes and single use utensils. Nothing ever came of it. I hope and pray for our future generations that we can change our single use plastic problem.
Wonder how many years till something like this is main stream though.

[ehmzed]

Here in Italy a lot of clear plastic-like packagings for products sold in the supermarket are made of corn and are labelled to be thrown either into the paper or the organic waste bin.
The more alternatives the better!

[S.MOHANTY]

Now-a-days India is excelling in every field.

[lavenderblossomish]

Extremely proud of them, Extremely proud of our Indian scientists, they should be given Nobel peace prize for their noble yet genuine hard work.❤️❤️❤️❤️