Could this be the cure to our plastic problem? | Mission Ahead
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2020
- Newlight Technologies has developed an innovative, biodegradable plastic alternative that can capture greenhouse gases and won't pollute our oceans. It's called AirCarbon.
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“Products that people can afford” Just visited their website...
Each straw costs about 20 cents compared to 1 cent for a regular plastic straws.
For a set of 1 knife, 1 spoon and 1 fork it’s $7
Compared to $0.25 for a regular plastic cutlery.
Not very affordable to an average Joe
The plastic will have future costs that you are not including.
@@georgev1980 like what? What are these "future costs" of plastic that you speak of, aside from being turned into garbage?
The ocean plastic clean up boat seems more affordable now lol
@@mariusvanc isn't that the biggest problem? you might not realize it now but exactly where do you think all those garbage is going? it just disappear into thin air?
hopefully with time the price will come down
I didn't understand the last shot ..
Yes, it is unbelievable!
If only the plastic was the problem. The problem is the carbon emission and this can't do anything about it. It is mostly a marketing plan to exploit the plastic guilt.
I don't think you fully understand the carbon sequestering technology. There are a bunch of companies that are literally removing carbon from the air using biomimicry. Though it might not be the final solution, its a great mitigation approach without displacing the entire capitalist system.
@@alexonwudiwe4230 and where are they getting the energy to do all this sequestration? And how much energy would it take to do this on meaningful scale?
@@alexonwudiwe4230 he understands it alright! This company is just capitalizing on the plastic green fad, while masquerading as eradicators of carbon, WHILE producing waaay more plastic (i am not buying that “one year decomposing of our plastic” BS ) and even more Carbon! ... It seems like you don’t know the concept behind True Carbon Sequestration ... The tech has to be ZERO Emission!
if it's not at least as cheap as plastic it will never be successful.
How about not using straws in the first place...humans are so lame sometimes
i kinda agree...
This is green snakeoil.
I don’t know. It’s quite an ambitious project to just make plastic. There’s more to it, there has to be.
i hope there will be a big success of saving our enviroment🌎❤️🌍❤️🌏❤️
Plastic is useful for the flexibility in shapes, the variations in composition (hard, soft, heat resist, etc), MOST IMPORTANTLY how cheap it is. Thus, it’s everywhere.
Sure, you could make a better for environment plastic, but a company or consumer has to choose to buy it. On a small scale the difference in 1 cent per unit is meaningless. The issue is large scale.
If I need 10 million units and yours is only 1 cent per unit more expensive, I now need to choose to spend an extra 100,000 to make it happen. That’s enough money to add a lot of equity in a business. You can amplify a business drastically by reducing costs this simply.
Take straws. You provide it as a bonus as a convenience to customers. They use it once and dump it. The straw they used didn’t impact their enjoyment of the item, so it becomes a gamble for marketing. Will people care if I advertise that my straw degrade faster and help the environment? Maybe.
But what I DO know, is that the 100,000 could have gone towards something I KNOW everyone would want, like more efficient equipment that reduces costs more to pass on the savings to the customer (thus remaining competitive with other businesses who are trying to take market share).
In my opinion, these ALTERNATIVE plastics aren’t the real solution. In my opinion the real solution is an economic way to deconstruct the already popular and abundant “hence cheaper” plastic.
The things I’ve read on enzymes that eat plastic material I feel are the right direction, but we’ll need more research on viability and scale.
A good start would be to get rid of excess plastic. We need a lot less plastic than we think. Why are new products double wrapped in plastic? There are 8 million knife or box cutter accidents every Christmas caused by people attempting to open up their presents hacking away excess plastic that won’t degrade for hundreds of years.
Fortunately governments are starting to act. Plastic straws are banned where I live and other one use plastic soon to follow. This is a real solution. People may not like it at first but have quickly become used to it.
Both solutions are necessary plus one you forgot to mention, ways to recycle / upcycle / reuse .. existing plastics. Polymers > monomers > polymers > ...
In this case it’s not a difference of 1 cent but a difference of 19 cents!! How on earth can an company justify paying 19-20 times more a single use product?
Plastic, air quality, deforestation, water crisis, melting ice caps, ozone layer,
But hey, wind and solar is the way to go... SMH.
My country has banned plastic straws
yes! this is my debate skript evidence reee
Awesome love this stuff, so much better than green new bullshit
The best way to solve the plastic problem is to reinvent a plastic that is NOT plastic but does the exact job at the exact quality.
I think that's what this video is about ...
Or invent a plastic that can easily decompose once exposed to the ground for more than 3yrs without necessarily getting burned
This guy is as genius as Elon Musk but he is unheard of.. the major reporters should be highlighting this man weekly on nbc and fox.. but no