Why Finding Plastic Alternatives Has Turned Into A Trillion Dollar Industry

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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

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@tmgclips5300 4 жыл бұрын

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

@muzosh 4 жыл бұрын

Potato Doesn’t need to be, he might just want to monopolize the industry.

@givensusanto 4 жыл бұрын

muzosh lol grow up it’s called business

@dominicyang9309 4 жыл бұрын

DO YOU KNOW WHY ...

@tedlovejesus 3 жыл бұрын

Tmg Clips that’s called being authentic

@imbuffysummers 3 жыл бұрын

Because we live in a culture that demands growing a business to be more important than saving our planet 🙄

@aurimazas001 3 жыл бұрын

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

@natmatisgaming3117 4 жыл бұрын

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

@JohnSmith-qf1jn 4 жыл бұрын

It’s a really thick glass container for the milk.

@dannyvell8834 4 жыл бұрын

Thneeds

@ayahuascagaming9399 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, how?

@thatsawesome2060 5 ай бұрын

Inthe past we move from paper bags, waxed paper for packaging to plastic because we think it's good for environment to not cutting down tree, and been feed with information that plastic is recyclable.

@ianjohnson1249 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I totally agree.

@HunkMine 4 жыл бұрын

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

@chiraggupta1186 4 жыл бұрын

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

@InnD135 3 жыл бұрын

@Penny Bee That's called good stewardship of the planet. Removing a "problem" doesn't necessarily fix a system as a whole. Until recently, we were only trying to survive. Our problems today are much more subtle than they were even 100 years ago. Everything can seem to be a threat today. There will always be someone who cares. Be it recycling, caring for someone who is mentally unwell, or an injustice in the world. People do care. @Chirag thank you for your optimism.

@danielluo6499 4 жыл бұрын

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

@oliverallen5324 4 жыл бұрын

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

@No__18 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's like 100 generations

@annalisa14 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, d’ya think?

@pdd3 3 жыл бұрын

That's the point he was trying to make.

@HappyfoxBiz 3 жыл бұрын

he was talking about nuclear waste dude, not his plastic, he's trying to get the formula just right so that he can sell it, currently biodegradable plastic is horrible because if I have any moisture in them they are useless, and coupled with time they end up just turning useless, we need something better that is just as good as cotton but not needing more than our lifetime of water to grow enough cotton to make one bag.

@karolinakuc4783 10 ай бұрын

@@HappyfoxBizWell hemp and linen recquire less pesticides and have anti-bacterial properties. Not so soft and elastic tho. It needs 10 washes to be like that

@amitairan4731 4 жыл бұрын

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

@user-oz5iy4bl1u 3 жыл бұрын

But that's for polythene not for hdpe, pet and ldpe

@themadzucchini 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@nsytr06 4 жыл бұрын

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

@wayojii4705 3 жыл бұрын

They spent alot of money, how do you think they would get it back

@ultraenergy313 3 жыл бұрын

@@wayojii4705 How would you think if Newton patented all his Scientific research? The technology that can save people and the environment should be shared. Like Volvo for example. They develop the seatbelt technology and they don't patented it.

@nd7915 3 жыл бұрын

"We don't invent and create anything in the first place" Thats communism for ya! Capitalism has it's drawbacks but it has proven way more effective than it's alternatives.

@akshatchobdar3038 3 жыл бұрын

@@nd7915 the thing is, the people who are not sharing the technique are fuckin greedy and dont realize that their greed can cause a lot of damage to the world

@johndionisio9192 3 жыл бұрын

@@akshatchobdar3038 Doesn't change the fact that that is how it is, and just learn to accept it, you can't expect people to be a perfect member of society, you can't change human nature. In fact, most of them actually have a pretty good idea on its effects, but don't care enough.

@crystalidx 4 жыл бұрын

Use paper, glass, and metal. THE END.

@serenastarling8765 4 жыл бұрын

I wish it were that simple, but no. We are not just talking about citizens here, but also businesses. One time use plastics have the advantage of being very cheap and efficient, which businesses benefit greatly from and brings in more profit. Paper, glass, and metal are more pricy recourses which some businesses will sacrifice for either lack of enough funds or overall strong wants of high profits. As we all grow up we start to realize there is no black and white anymore, it's grey due to complications and such.

@jin_cotl 4 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly why the manufacturers turned to synthetic Polymer (plastic) during WWII because there weren’t enough resources to craft, and because it was a lot cheaper to use plastic.

@annalisa14 3 жыл бұрын

lujain alrosan - the only problem, we’re NOT all going to grow up. That’s merely a hope...

@ayahuascagaming9399 3 жыл бұрын

Ok inorder to do that we need to make people NOT use plastic and that would take ages because some are just completely ignorant. It would take generations for that mindset to completely eradicate

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

@@serenastarling8765 lmao 🤣 that's a nice way to say grow up.

@ancis1327 4 жыл бұрын

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

@maeshaeolde9545 3 жыл бұрын

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

@derickdinkins2887 2 жыл бұрын

Pursue this

@LifeinGlow 4 жыл бұрын

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?

@imbuffysummers 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MostlyPeacefulNinja 3 жыл бұрын

Businesses don't run on "save our planet". Employees can't pay their bills with it either 🙄

@ninjanerdstudent6937 3 жыл бұрын

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

@timobayens485 4 жыл бұрын

$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

@timobayens485 4 жыл бұрын

Pavor AND now the channel has changed the title... dumbasses

@oranjmusemeyer968 4 жыл бұрын

Global wealth was over 360 trillion a year ago... and you didn't listen to the narrator. 30 trillion in sustainable investments- that means across all sustainability investments.

@oranjmusemeyer968 4 жыл бұрын

According to the US SIF Foundation’s 2018 Report on US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends, as of year-end 2017, more than one out of every four dollars under professional management in the United States-$12.0 trillion or more-was invested according to sustainable investing strategies.

@oranjmusemeyer968 4 жыл бұрын

@Pavor they are correct- I did the due diligence...

@timobayens485 4 жыл бұрын

Oranjmuse Meyer they actually just changed the clickbait title from ‘’investors are pouring $30 trillion into reusable plastic” to the current one.. lmao

@Felevr 4 жыл бұрын

I dont trust their tech. 🤔

@yashgulave8366 3 жыл бұрын

"This sounds too good to be true..."-expert Yeah, every great idea does, before it's proven itself.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

Part of the problem here is relying so heavily on petroleum to get the plastic. Another problem is focusing on recycling because in the event that it's tossed out a car window or simply not recycled we have to wait generations for it to break down.

@KSRubberIndustries 2 жыл бұрын

We make synthetic rubber sheets/carpet for footwear industry and cattle farm using wastage polyethylene, single use plastic bag and reclaimed rubber. We are located in Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. We recycle more than 560 US Metric Ton plastic bags in a year.

@anthonysoto3776 4 жыл бұрын

Hemp plastic is edible and biodegradable Done. But you know this.

@oranjmusemeyer968 4 жыл бұрын

I tried the edible (and degradable) sporks- not great for very hot food- they start to bend some. They have no taste really, but I suppose in a pinch not bad. I think the should make some that are colorful with vitamins in them- maybe kids would eat them. 🙂

@mysterybuyer3738 3 жыл бұрын

It's great if you are a hippy.

@anthonysoto3776 3 жыл бұрын

Mystery Buyer even non hippies. It’s not designed to get you high. It’s just a great way to stop using plastic.

@mysterybuyer3738 3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonysoto3776 I want to use real plastic.

@mmeganlourdess 3 жыл бұрын

@@mysterybuyer3738 lol so u want our planet to die along with humans

@meajmal 3 жыл бұрын

In addition there needs to be investment to clean up all the plastic we have already produced

@thatsawesome2060 5 ай бұрын

We ditched paper bag, waxed paper, jut bag, reusable glass bottles for soda, and latter need to find plastic replacement when we can just go back how we do in 1960s

@miguelzadorosny8451 2 жыл бұрын

is there a way to get the sources for the information presented? interested in taking a full look at those numbers of the amount of money invested in the industry

@gchalke8681 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for vid

@sl33per1 3 жыл бұрын

"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.

@brd8764 4 жыл бұрын

We got plastic.

@nicklombard610 3 жыл бұрын

All plastic manufactures should be forced by law to recover through a gradual increased % of thier production.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

So for example this year they would be responsible for recovering ten tons of ocean plastic and next year 12tons of ocean plastic? If so that's a smart idea, kinda similar to carbon capture.

@ujjwal3078 4 жыл бұрын

We could always use Hemp plastics! but.... 🤷‍♂️

@theholyfridge2130 3 жыл бұрын

but money smh

@toomanymarys7355 Жыл бұрын

If it's PET from hemp, it is still PET.

@redredred8408 9 ай бұрын

Mentholatum skhocked

@hshf.6292 3 жыл бұрын

👌 😒The biggest issue but the most ignorant one is the plastic disposal matter.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

Elaborate please. What exactly do u mean?

@hshf.6292 2 жыл бұрын

I meant, Plastic and Disposable products are increasing around the world and it has become a predicament these days.

@DC9848 3 жыл бұрын

How about bottle deposit system like used in Scandinavia and Germany

@9fine 2 жыл бұрын

we need to store a sizeable plastic for recycling which can meet the world's demand and then take the rest of it and convert it into hydrogen.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

The problem isn't recycling it's the fact that it some how always finds it's way into the ocean and our food supply and that it's petroleum based. Recycling isn't that high on the list but it is still important.

@areyouarobotz 3 жыл бұрын

More options for consumers means plastics demand will decrease

@ayahuascagaming9399 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. But we need to think of alternatives

@lemonrand1 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ms.m3n 3 жыл бұрын

How much do the end products are actually reused material tho?

@KaranSingh-1988 3 жыл бұрын

How does plastic turned into palette help? Does it has any usage at all?

@daveotuwa5596 3 жыл бұрын

The joint is 10 mi E of the national border. Close 2 Egypt.

@romanacord9837 3 жыл бұрын

We need a biodegradable plastic that composts in regular time.

@peeny7390 3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean "regular time"?

@romanacord9837 3 жыл бұрын

@@peeny7390 I mean something that doesn't take over 100 years to decompose. We need something that can compost in under 5 years to keep up with the demand.

@chuckkottke 3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts as well. Plus carbon neutral, because more CO2 emitted from decomposition is part of the problem. What if we just use more natural fiber products and more reusable glass containers?🍶🌞🌎

@romanacord9837 3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckkottke Like the exoskeleton of crustaceans.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckkottke honestly this would work a buying us time to figure out a better alternative.

@Celis.C 3 жыл бұрын

So how do plastics even end up in the ocean and what can be done to mitigate the inflow of plastics in the ocean?

@Kiyarose3999 3 жыл бұрын

There is no way I would use Compostable plastic alternative that is petrochemical! Single use has to end NOW, there’s still loads of unnecessary resources, energy chemicals, transportation etc involved in this ‘solution’.

@9fine 2 жыл бұрын

its not alchemy, it involves catalytic heating of plastics.

@jayeshjadhav8863 Жыл бұрын

The problem is plastic is petroleum “by”-product and will be always cheaper due to the ginormous amount of crude processed each year. Where would you throw this residue which is plastic. The problem is petroleum and not plastic

@cakedud3341 4 жыл бұрын

I now want to eat that plastic spaghetti

@DidI-mn6nb 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing there care about is money they invented this tech to make money rather than problem solving. Sustainability is the next big boom!

@alexandertr 3 жыл бұрын

So the perfect product, it does not matter the raw material, would be the one that could walk alone to the recycling bin.....

@AngryTango 2 жыл бұрын

Plastic waste looks like depression in visual form

@clin329 4 жыл бұрын

Is this channel real??!?

@JimmySloop-ci9yh 3 жыл бұрын

Companies that make plastic products should half to pay for the cleaning it up.

@trevoror8668 3 жыл бұрын

The people who have made billions over the years should be held financially responsible for most investment in sorting this problem out They should have been many years ago. They live in luxury the planet is suffering from the consequences

@ndunamgwenya4884 2 жыл бұрын

Plastic is the new gold, collect as much as you can, companies are seeing this and try to take away from the people, collect, collectvand collect

@jamesoshea2111 3 жыл бұрын

Because we are running out of oil and there's money to be made , plain and simple !

@CombatPlasticPollution Жыл бұрын

Let's accelerate that development by supporting the Combat Plastic Pollution Tax!

@epikgamer4462 4 жыл бұрын

234 subs nice

@monsitime9370 3 жыл бұрын

Even tho is see this... I dont see a change... 😢

@jayellescoto7335 4 жыл бұрын

This channel is so new...

@jigyanshushrivastava6153 3 жыл бұрын

I am seprating plastic from other garbage . So that it does not end up in the ocean.

@annalisa14 3 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that keeping garbage OUT of the ocean should have been an alarm call the very DAY that scientists realized it was a dire issue- like- back in 1975😡👹

@MarinusJordaan 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, very informative but please change your video to stare plastic bags and straws are not recyclable as they both are. Straws made from PP amd bags from HD and LD

@Edzhjus 3 жыл бұрын

0:02 Already imagining. There is positive aspect of plastic aswell, for example 3D printers, people simply focused on negative. 🕵

@alchemist2616 4 жыл бұрын

Still plastic

@JoshuaPriceChannel Жыл бұрын

Hemp now!

@riverside4339 3 жыл бұрын

hey now i know what @nigahiga has been up to 7:30

@matbritton6816 3 жыл бұрын

Hemp for victory!!

@Oscar4u69 4 жыл бұрын

ubq Is so Shady and greedy

@BLOOM-POGI 3 жыл бұрын

Something's odd about this company idk maybe they doing something...wrong

@l.y6508 3 жыл бұрын

If company’s stopped producing plastic, people would stop using it.

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

That's not how it works. Companies cater to the masses. If people stop buying it they will stop making it.

@1982masood 3 жыл бұрын

I saw and Indian here too

@gamenhobby8521 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds fishy. Company worry about other people recycling all the trash?

@MistressOP 3 жыл бұрын

lol use a glass bruh. just subsidized the glass.

@brianwade8649 3 жыл бұрын

BS sensors going off strong

@glennwillis474 2 жыл бұрын

Hi my name is Glenn Willis and I'm very interested in starting my own recycling company here in the United States to solve the problem of wasting our Waters in landfills I will contact you guys shortly after raising enough money to begin my own program

@purpleaki7135 4 жыл бұрын

Theranos and Bre - X minerals come to mind.

@giftycustom5560 4 жыл бұрын

I just see another guy trying to do monopoly

@FLCM Жыл бұрын

Its kinda always been a fools errand to tell people to recycle given the current system. Even reducing can be difficult sometimes because almost everything is packaged in plastic. I think the biodegradable plastic is infinitly better than the recyclable stuff tbh, its far easier to replace the current plastic with biodegradable than to try and get people to recycle every single piece of it. One simply requires you to change the packaging on the product, the other requires an overhaul on a massive scale. Oftentimes recycling is not the easy choice in america, it should be, but making it the easy choice is not as easy as making that decision unnecessary.

@karolinakuc4783 10 ай бұрын

Not really in Japan they have good infrastructure for it, in Denmark they burn it in inscinerators with good filters. It is big companies that don't wanna spend their money on it.

@LaughwithMAZ Жыл бұрын

Why aren't these breakthroughs being announced and implemented? Bring the laws to the governments and put them in place you criminals and uneducated politicians shame on you!

@duggydugg3937 3 жыл бұрын

wow.. kudos to the scientists closing in on bideg plastics...

@HereThereInbetween 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this story and the business stats around the profitability of sustainability. However, the reporting has some errors. Getting an opposing view from someone in the plastics industry is a straw man. Also, the viewpoint of a former won over critic who is on the Board of UBQ is also not a representative, independent choice to prove the viability of the product.

@ashya1 4 жыл бұрын

Nice 257 views

@9fine 2 жыл бұрын

@7:10 , I can do this all day.

@ashya1 4 жыл бұрын

4 days and 100 views nice

@nathanchang7713 2 жыл бұрын

If the world treat plastic & climate change like they’re treating Covid & vaccines we’ll be in a far better place right now

@diskyariajetmiko 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm

@giteshdandekar3436 3 жыл бұрын

Your documentary is OK with 2000. All is laughing. Solution is pyrodisel. Recycling of plastic in as fuel.

@niallmccarthy7396 3 жыл бұрын

I don't like food goning to make products of none food items

@chuckkottke 3 жыл бұрын

The criteria that really has to be met is biocompatibility. Biodegradable into harmless substances in a reasonable amount of time in nature, because some will always wind up in the ditch. And carbon neutral. Put a $.50 or $1.00 deposit on all plastic items, redeemable in every country; that should help keep most of it out of the oceans and freshwater bodies!🌎🐠🐟🐳🦐

@jayknight139 2 жыл бұрын

Damn that's smart af. U are right though. That would change the game.

@chiraggoel5473 3 жыл бұрын

This has been going on in India for years. Thay show that its like magic

@ashya1 4 жыл бұрын

This channel is already been monetized

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