28 min listen
The End of Plastic
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Nov 5, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tom Heap meets a man on a mission: Eben Bayer is determined to eradicate plastic and polystyrene from the packaging industry and replace it with a bio-degradable fungus.
And he thinks he's cracked it. By combining fungus with agricultural waste to create packaging that's cheap, durable and biodegradable, Bayer hopes to disrupt an environmentally destructive industry valued globally at around £13 billion. He's looking at ways to roll his product out across the USA and beyond.
Plus scientists are also looking at biodegradable plastics made from potatoes, and even shrimps and silk in what could be heralded as a real game-changer
In this edition of Costing The Earth, Tom Heap asks if it's too early to be reading the last rites to plastic.
Presenter: Tom Heap
Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
And he thinks he's cracked it. By combining fungus with agricultural waste to create packaging that's cheap, durable and biodegradable, Bayer hopes to disrupt an environmentally destructive industry valued globally at around £13 billion. He's looking at ways to roll his product out across the USA and beyond.
Plus scientists are also looking at biodegradable plastics made from potatoes, and even shrimps and silk in what could be heralded as a real game-changer
In this edition of Costing The Earth, Tom Heap asks if it's too early to be reading the last rites to plastic.
Presenter: Tom Heap
Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
Released:
Nov 5, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Rebel Without a Car: Young people are turning their back on the car. Tom Heap asks if it has a future. by Costing the Earth