Thank you so much to everyone who's watched the first of my longer video series! If you're new or you've come over from other platforms, I really appreciate it! If anyone is interested in hearing the full 10 minute interview with Pierre, that includes answers at to how they remove the fishy smell from the seaweed, and how it compares cost-wise to plastic, I've uploaded it to my Patreon page here: www.patreon.com/sambentley I'm working on the next one this weekend so hopefully it won't be too long a wait for the next one! Have a great day! Sam

I used to freak out my friends decades ago when I ate candy wrapped in rice paper, and ate the paper. Anyway, I LOVE this and would PAY MORE for a product with this packaging. May it be available soon on a large scale.

This is so exciting. Seaweed produces oxygen and provides homes and food for sea creature and then packaging that is biodegradable. We need more of this! Awesome job!

A METER A DAY?! that's insane growth speed, man seaweed is top notch😮

so informative, had no idea about how much plastic is actually recycled. would be so nice to have this option widely available and more people know about it

Loved the video!! I especially enjoyed the part where you just sprayed saline solution on the gelatin extracted from seaweed, and it was as easy as that. It goes to show that replacing plastic is neither difficult nor cumbersome, big industries just don't want to make an effort to change their processes. I really like seeing your content on social media, so thank you!

This is fantastic! So nice to listen to and learn of such earth friendly innovations! Good news stories bring so much joy ❤

Let’s go Team Earth 🌎! Wow the seaweed growing at 1m per day 👀 What an innovative company Notpla, hope they can keep scaling this to many other industries and solutions. Great content Sam, informative, interesting & positive. Excited for more 🙌🏼

Thank you for the links to zero waste stores! I hope we can get more and more of them, I want everything from shampoo to cereal to be able to go into my reusable containers. And I love the gelatin/seaweed solution for single use, how amazing if we could encourage more companies to start producing their products with this. 🤞 Keep spreading the good news and positivity, the more people know about these alternatives the more we can pressure companies to use these solutions instead of claiming there are none.

I love this so much!! I once saw a race where they did water in something like this instead of bottles and thought it was brilliant! I hope it gets more traction because this would be wonderful!

Another comment, this is seriously a project I wish more countries would widely adopt, specially after finding out about the length of growth seaweed can make in a single day. Thank you kindly Sam for doing the extra arm and leg work to even visit the site of where this was worked on, making it into a very educational video and having it be available for all to be enlightened about. also, I bet it was a little funky feeling the product go in your mouth and probably pop like a grape😅

This is all so extremely cool! We need innovators like this company to go global. I'm in Canada and there is a deplorable lack of non plastic packaging solutions here.

Absolutely love this!! Such a great initiative which should be produced more to reduce plastic. Only 9% being recycled is a shocker 😢 but great video well done for raising awareness for plastic pollution and solutions 😃😁👍

Amazing. How blessed we are to live in a time of innovation. I hope and pray we use our brains to replace plastic. Thanks Sam for sharing this exciting news and spreading positivity. More people like Sam in the world please 🙏🏽

This is amazing!! I still remember hearing of this news a while back, but seeing more of the process and learning more about how this will change the game in plastic pollution fills me with such excitement! Thank you very much for sharing this with us, and congratulations on your first KZfaq video pertaining to such great news! 💚 Looking forward to seeing more from you!

Thank you so much for creating this video, Sam! I have faith that within our lifetime we’ll be able to create positive change and eliminate single use plastic.

Amazing video Sam! So good to see more of the behind the scenes of Notpla. Loving this longer format on KZfaq, can't wait to see more!

This is an amazing idea!! I wish more companies would do this!

What a wonderful video! I wish companies like Notpla are able to expand and gain momentum globally. Would love to see similar initiatives in Australia and legislation to reduce greenwashing.

Fantastic video, well done and looking forward to many more to come. I had no idea so little was still being recycled 😢. Hopefully with more videos like and more awareness, things might change for the better.

So good to see! This company is the change we need to see! Keep it up! Great work

I'd heard about this but I had questions. So cool to have a more in depth look at it. In Puerto Rico we are having problems with the large amounts of sargassum on our coasts. Makes usually clear waters look brown and it stinks. Thankfully, we are finding uses for it! 7th graders found a way to make it a construction material (like concrete), and university students found a way to make it into filament for 3D printing! Can't post the links, but I'm sure you could find more info.

I love how candid this is, your reaction cracked me 😂 it’s great to see solutions like this being spotlighted and I’m glad that it’s getting recognition 🥰

Loving this longer format for YT! Thank you for highlighting these amazing design projects. We're all about Design for Planet at DC, so more of this please! 🌍🌳

We definitely need plastic alternatives! Love this!

This information is so important, thanks for helping people to be conscious about environmental issues and for giving tips for sustainable consumption. Please do more videos, you are great at it!

I really hope this catches on. Thank you, Sam, for the hope you are giving with your posts and videos ❤️ it has seriously helped me this year.

Thank you so much for bringing us such an inspiring and hope-filled way to address what are really serious challenges! 💚💚💚

Great video! I saw sorted food do a colab with nopla too. Brilliant company doing amazing things. So much info here I didn’t know too. I thought I was really on it with the recycling but I had no idea cardboard takeaway boxes were covered in plastic, and that plastic bottle could only be recycled a few times. How these companies get away with the amount of greenwashing that goes on is disgusting Love what you do, keep it up!

Love that you made a longer video about Notpla and their great innovation 🤩 So informative and fun to watch! The style of your vlog is also so chill at the same time.

Well done, Sam. This was fantastically informative and really nicely put together. It seems plastic and fossil fuels really are capitalism’s hugest gut punch to all of us and I really hope big businesses will honestly look into adopting this option. How much research had been done into scaling up global seaweed quantities to the levels needed to make this truly viable for the future? Will the seaweed itself cause any long-term ecosystem issues? Thanks again. So glad I got to see this and will invest in the book as soon as I’m able. 🙏

Super cool technology and using simple things like seaweed!! Im super impressed with their ideas and reasoning behind creating such a product !

Wow! What an amazing company with a fantastic idea! And the gelatine is not made from animals - hooray! If I was starting out or even mid-career now, instead of 71 and retired, this is the company I would want to work for. It deserves to expand worldwide, and all plastic production should be stopped now.

Love your content! You are brilliant. Your good news relieves my environmental anxiety. So grateful for all you share. Favorite part of this video is when you make the film and you get so excited

This is such a great idea and invention! My thoughts are "how do we encourage companies to use this?"

Congrats Sam!!!! Thank you sooooo much for spreading good news. Your IG account always brings a samile to my day. Lots of love from Argentina I can't wait for this kind of "plastic" is wordwide

God that is so cool! I had no idea this solution existed and this video inspired me to make a game about how ineffective plastic recycle can be. But I also have a question about solutions in Canada. I do buy bulk foods with my own containers and such but are there any resources for Canadians you can recommend?

This is awesome - Thanks for sharing! I love all the things that this can be used for. Looking forward to seeing how companies like this shape our world for the better!

Amazing video, yet again. Great to see that plastic can be replaced by an edible substitute, and very interesting to see that only plastic types 1 and 2 are widely recycled. We really need to hold plastic manufacturers accountable. Thank you Sam.

That’s amazing!! Love it!! Let’s make this product globally distributed!!!

I came from tiktok! You are the most positive person I've seen in a lot of social media platforms. Thank you for sharing these news ❤

This is amazing!! I use seaweed in my gardening all the time. Love seeing new products from seaweed! Hemp is also another product that can be used has a plastic alternative and can be composted. My only concern is that they respect the ocean and do not strip seaweed from that ecosystem. Thank you for sharing!

Incredible content! I absolutely love your way of introducing brilliant innovations that are helping our home planet 🌎 💖. I’ve been looking forward to your book for quite a while now!. I’m all about climate change and I just know this book is going hold so much about it.. especially written by an author that I very well connect with! ❤❤❤

A Mexican company makes cutlery made from Avocado pits and in Indian plates and cutlery is being produced from sugar cane waste. It's a start in reducing plastic trash. Thanks for your videos!

Great video! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if this could be scaled up worldwide!

The video was beautifully made! Thank you for introducing this company, I love hearing about initiatives like this 🥰

This is awesome and has been a long time coming! Thank you all for your discoveries! 💙

I looove your video, Sam!! It is so inspiring. Keep shining as you do and thank you for your content! We appreciate you!!

Kudos to you for this amazing discovery. I hate plastic! It causes so much damage to everything. Hope there will be many more alternatives besides using seaweed as there isn’t enough to replace plastic entirely I do believe.

Notpla was a truly worthy winner of the Earthshot Prize. I particularly love the idea of toothpaste berries!

Hemp also can be used to make "platic"-like items from its cellulose, which is biodegradable. Growing Hemp puts nutrients into soil and pulls out toxins. Hemp also acts as a deterrent to pests.

Notpla would be an amazing company to work for. i hope more big companies work with them. such a great video. but i did want to see how they process the seaweed

Two of my fav brits are two Sams: you and Sam Ryder. Both with a mission to spread positivity and happiness to the globe. Would love some sort of collab between these two smiling, longhaired and charming gentlemen! ❤

Can't wait to talk to talk with our students about these improvements. Shocking after a few weeks this is not more popular! Come on KZfaq. Do your thing!

This is so amazing!!! Super insightful and interesting, thanks for sharing, Sam!! 💚

Congratulations to go from Instagram to You Tube!!! Great to have longer time to see all the good stuff happening!!

Appreciate what you are doing and the awareness it brings 💜

It is a beautiful step towards circularity! I love your posts and showing us the good happening in this world!

Awesome to see you on here! Great video 👏

Great video and topic! Thank you so much! Although I am already doing some of these things (saving good glass containers to reuse and shopping for bulk foods locally, I learned about many more ways to eliminate plastics and keep Earth beautiful. Keep up the good work, Sam! I've subscribed and will share. Peace, Love, Joy and Blessings to all. Namaste

So awesome! Thanks for sharing about this awesome innovation!

What a great video! Thanks for sharing this amazing solution!!

This gives me hope 😊 I wish more and more companies would use alternative packages if necessary to use them, and that gov would help too, for example by regulating one time use plastic by putting tax on it? 🤔

Amazing!! Love all of your videos, thankyou for what you do, you’ve really helped me a lot!☺️

Thank you. such a wonderful post to view and share and use inn the future.

I know it's out of topic but can I just say how lovely your smile is? It really lights up the room and It just feels so positive. Great job on informative video btw and don't forget to take care of yourself too! ❤

Love this and all your videos. Keep up the awesome work.

Soooo goood.Thank you for giving these informations.God bless you.

Fantastic video! Great company with wonderful ideas and values. ❤

Impressive! Looking forward to it! Wondering what type of gelatin they’re using for now?

Amazing! Thanks for sharing this wonderful new invention!

Amen amen amen!!!!! This is 100% necessary for the world!!!! Thank you, Sam! Love u! ❤

Kudos to these wonderful humans ❤ thank you for your invaluable work

FANTASTIC bro! Love it.

Love all the good news! Love the innovation! Just love it all!

Sounds like such a Winning idea !!!.. Every country Should be looking into this technology !! So Glad it showed up in my video feed .. 😊

Thank you very much Sam for sharing some good news, which seems like these days is very scarce.

The first concern that my mind jumps to is the energy cost and money cost of producing this seaweed-based plastic replacement. You must take into account the total amount of energy it costs to produce a product, from the growing and harvesting of the seaweed, all the way to the transportation to actually get it onto the shelves. There's no point for major companies to adopt something such as this unless the cost to grow, harvest, produce, and transport it is lower than the current standard. At 9:34 , you mention how ease of recyclability is especially important for lower income countries. This is true. It is also true that those very same countries are tasked with producing the world's majority of products including plastic as a whole and aluminum. This requires energy to produce all these products. Energy requires money. And without money, your energy production (and therefore production as a whole) is severely reduced. In short, *money and energy are directly correlated.* These lower-income countries are exactly that, they have less money as a whole. Therefore, they turn to cheaper energy production methods for their typically much larger populations (China and India), which usually ends up being coal. This is why "green" energy methods are so hard to switch over to. Think about how much more money and energy itself it takes to mine, refine, and build batteries for all the solar and wind plants and electric vehicles than it costs to simply mine, transport, and burn coal. Wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear power all have much higher costs to produce the same output than the current coal standard these countries have become so dependent on. It's not sustainable, not as they are now. (This is also why I put "green" in quotations) Wind and solar are simply not as energy dense as natural gas or oil. I wish it weren't true, but it is. Until advancements in better battery technology, lower cost for material production, or general output of solar, wind, and other green energy methods are made to be more efficient and cheaper than the currently already cheap methods of using coal, natural gas, and oil, these megacorporations are never going to switch to "green" energy methods and plastic replacements anytime soon. All in all though, I enjoy watching your vids about all this new tech that is coming out. It's very informative and important to bring these otherwise brushed over tech and the people behind it to light. I hope to see it one day become a common replacement for the current standard.

Such an amazing invention! I always enjoy your videos. It's nice to see the positive side towards the environment. Thank you for your video 😊

Brilliant SouLution ~ Love it

Wow we need more good news like this 🎉

My phone knows me so well. Showed me this video then I saw yours on tiktok after

Absolutely brilliant and absolutely about time 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Great job!

It's just like the boba burst bubbles! 6:42

That table display reminded me of a tide pod, yumm

OOOOOoooo this is so Solarpunk I love it! Comment for the algo! Bamboo and hemp are great solutions to sustainable alternatives to tree made paper products as well. They are like the three sisters of sustainability. Kelp, Hemp and Bamboo call save the world. Oh I forgot, I own a Lomi kitchen composter and I highly recommend as It can turn bioplastics like NOTPla into garden compost along with other kitchen scraps. I'm not affiliated with the company. Just a very happy customer. lol

Love this. Love your videos

I appreciate what you are doing! Keep up the good work. Let's spread good habits to the world and save our planet.✊😊

Absolutely great discovery!… nature will love it! ❤

Great video, a great concept (which for the edible water / juice has been tried before by a company called "Ooho"), hopefully advancements can be made and it can go mainstream, but the answer regarding the hygiene of the product wasn't of satisfaction for me, didn't really answer how it can be safe to consume Edit : wow, actually, this company was actually Ooho before they rebranded as Notpla, glad they kept doing it

Thanks for sharing this great video

Fantastic product, looks like it could be used to replace a lot of plastic wrap as well

Excellent idea. ❤❤❤

This is amazinggg!!

Gotta share after that outro - I brought a reusable cup to a coffee shop. They made the coffee in a single use cup then poured it into mine and trashed the paper one. 😂

This is so awesome It should be all over the world now!!!! 🎉😊

What a neat process! Even the waste isn't wasted, they make paper! Well done, and good for Prince William for his help funding this. All good wishes.

An iconic product!

so it's like collagen? they didn't want to say exactly what it is. land plants can grow waxes, too so that'd be interesting to look in to