Why Finding Plastic Alternatives Has Turned Into A Trillion Dollar Industry

There are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the oceans. Investors have poured more than $30 trillion into the alternative plastics industry. These companies are racing to deliver a solution.

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Companies Are Racing To Find A Plastic Alternative

[natmatisgaming]

This is actually really prudent and we need to get to making a product that is reusable “forever”

[tmgclips]

Lol he got pissed off when they asked to show the patented tech

[ianjohnson]

Recycling should be like the 3rd or 4th conversation to have. We must reduce reduce reduce first... Not generating plastic trash should be our absolute priority #1. Filling our grocery stores with aisles and aisles of plastic packaging, then trying to recycle them after the fact is a folly.

[aurimazas]

UBQ should tell the world straight: "We aren't saving a planet, darn it! We're making a business here!"

[oliverallen]

Biodegradable over 5000 years is not biodegradable relevant to human life.

[HunkMine]

UBQ reminds me of Theranos, I'm not even aware of their actual working product, get ready for the article that this is a scam

[chiraggupta]

You know what I love humanity even with all the horrible things we do in this world still there are some people who don't give up easily they are the one who going to solve this plastic problem

[amitairan]

The technology already exists for pellets in INDIA. Where used plastic is converted into pellets and can be reused again.

[danielluo]

I can imaging what those oil company will do to try to stop the process of developing total reusable plastic.

[nsytr]

"We won't share because business"
smh, that's capital for ya!

[crystalidx]

Use paper, glass, and metal. THE END.

[themadzucchini]

If it's patented technology then it doesn't have tostay hidden. If it's a patent then it's publicly available information...
Do you mean proprietary?

[ancis]

Coke has a list of ingredients on the bottle, we just can't understand it

[timobayens]

$30 trillion? Global wealth is just over $250 trillion... that means they’re spending $6 for EVERY PIECE of plastic ?? Isn’t that a typing error? Lmfao

[slper]

"Humanities addiction to [plastic]", you know, if companies would stop using it, people would stop buying it. Google "Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world". If these companies would stop using single use plastics, this would have a massive positive impact on the problem.

[LifeinGlow]

well I am glad there are some new technologies, honestly what is going on with the environment, plastics and the world is crazy and shocking how many people do not even care closing their eyes on ecology. imagine if majority of people would become eco-friendly and essentialists / minimalists?

[maeshaeolde]

Seperating plastics might be easier to seperate by using fluids of differing density in order to seperate plastics according to their buoyancy

[lemonrand]

One good example why the patent system is broken.. stifling progress and killing the world... a reform is needed

[ninjanerdstudent]

Trade secrets are not the same as patents. Patents expire. Trade secrets do not expire.

[mybuffysummers]

If only we could then also move from the goal being to create a successful business to simply creating something that will save our planet