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Plastic Earth

But when you look ata little thin wrapper around your snack bar,typically it's not one...

But when you look at
a little thin wrapper around your snack bar,
typically it's not one layer of plastic, there are
so many different layers in there to get
the right barrier properties, food contact safety, keeping it fresh,
all these things

Full Transcript

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But when you look at a little thin wrapper
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around your snack bar, typically it's not one layer
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of plastic, there are so many different layers
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in there to get the right barrier properties,
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food contact safety,
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keeping it fresh, all these things.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
35
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:19
Uploaded
Apr 19, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
DreamPost Productions

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Movie Summary

The plastic crisis is met head-on with tackling the solutions to deal with the over production of single-use plastics.
And to redesign that to be compostable is possible. - Plastic Earth 00:05
And to redesign that to be compostable is possible.
But the issue is, - Plastic Earth 00:11
But the issue is,
And that feedback loop has never gotten back - Plastic Earth 00:06
And that feedback loop has never gotten back
We get to work with them and talk to them - Plastic Earth 00:06
We get to work with them and talk to them
And hopefully we can move those products - Plastic Earth 00:09
And hopefully we can move those products
[excavator rumbling] - Plastic Earth 00:11
[excavator rumbling]
We have a team of almost 50 people working on - Plastic Earth 00:10
We have a team of almost 50 people working on
Well, here we are doing - Plastic Earth 00:06
Well, here we are doing
So if we-- for example, if one wants to produce - Plastic Earth 00:09
So if we-- for example, if one wants to produce
We check if the plastic will fragment - Plastic Earth 00:08
We check if the plastic will fragment
So, home composting, the duration - Plastic Earth 00:05
So, home composting, the duration
Uh, so these are all tests which are running - Plastic Earth 00:13
Uh, so these are all tests which are running
Standards are being written how to determine - Plastic Earth 00:06
Standards are being written how to determine
So that you have, like, objective, - Plastic Earth 00:11
So that you have, like, objective,
We'd like to see the composting infrastructure grow - Plastic Earth 00:10
We'd like to see the composting infrastructure grow
[Susan] So, one of the things we got was compostable bags - Plastic Earth 00:08
[Susan] So, one of the things we got was compostable bags
And that's where we need packaging companies - Plastic Earth 00:11
And that's where we need packaging companies
We're seeing much less - Plastic Earth 00:10
We're seeing much less
That's-- that's not occurring anymore because of-- - Plastic Earth 00:06
That's-- that's not occurring anymore because of--
[Rhodes] If food waste were a country, - Plastic Earth 00:07
[Rhodes] If food waste were a country,