These are the companies trying to solve the world's plastic waste problem

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Here's what we can do about our plastics problem

Plastics are useful. They're used to help make lifesaving medical supplies, lightweight, fuel-efficient car parts, and insulation for our homes. But nearly half of all plastic produced goes towards single-use items such as bags, straws, utensils and takeout containers. As the waste piles up, there's a growing demand for alternatives.

There's a number of companies trying to develop cost-efficient and eco-friendly substitutes, from mushroom packaging to advanced fibers and plastic-free online shopping. But it may take serious legislative efforts to incentive adoption and slow the rise of the industry overall.

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We should talk about masks! You think the straws are bad? The impact all of these masks are going to have on the environment? Apocalyptic! Time to say goodbye to masks.

The word ‘Alternatives’ used loosely here…like those cardboard straws that collapse after you take 2 sips! I’m all for sustainability but can we try find things that actually work, not produce things that are just props!

You got to support EternallyLiquid to save the ecosystem. Everyone will be personally and publically will be benefitted.

Let's quit referring to plastic bags as single use items. They get multiple uses for me and just about everyone I know. And they are also recyclable.

Why aren't we using more plastics in roadways? Honestly, if its chemically treated its not very different from bitumen and has some characteristics that make it more desirable and longer lasting. Way better / cheaper than a landfill.

Yeah paper

Think you need to watch seaspiracy to learn it’s not single use plastics but fishing causing the majority of our plastic waste in the ocean.

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It’s about time

Here's good news from the innovators at Eastman Chemical.

Gee, this seems premature...

$AKMY.V is taking this issue head on, I'm pretty confident that they'll dominate the market. bags2riches Sustainability recycling

Scumbag. 🤣

Here’s a novel idea: paper.

Wow $PCT 50% EBITDA margin! No other technology. Investor Presentation Slide 7

plastic alternative? paper.

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I like the part where she said we need to close the tap🚰 . To Stop🛑licensing new Petrochemical building sites, etc.,but encourage new licensing of conversion into recycling Petrochemicals🏭. To be part of the SOLUTION and not by adding to the growing problem of the century.

Return to restaurants with cloth napkins and glass dishes and washable utensils. Reuse grocery bags.

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We need a company that makes plastic also fund a clean up of their mess!

thank you very much for your work

Packaging essential, but we need something biodegradable, you cannot clean most items ✌️

did you see where they made bricks out of plastic and built a house with them. what a great idea. there is enough plastic in the world to make houses for everybody on this planet and realitivly cheaply too

Need some public companies tho.

a few decades ago, we were told plastic bags would save the trees and plastic bottles were better and safer than glass bottles.

Why aren't they public yet? They must be merging with a SPAC soon. I'd buy them. By the way, the company is Footprint.

Long past about time!! Progress seems to encourage laziness-profiteering with no effort or thoughts towards long term consequences. What dumb creatures we are really... all brain, sex and buck oriented mainly.

This is why I am investing in $GME. They encourage you not to throw your old games but bring it back. Evil Hedge Funds don’t want green future. Just greens in their bank account to buy bigger houses then they need.

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All of them a lairs they don't give a rats behind Google Facebook Twitter all advertisement are promoting products that use plastic and then claim to be ESG compliant . They push porn abortion sodomy and gender confusion

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Let’s start utilizing hemp more. Used for flooring, clothing, etc. Boba places here in CA are huge straw offenders.

Jim Cramer is a criminal. The OG 'alternative facts' spewer.

Ahem👇

Is anyone really relying on this guy for any advice let alone science?

12 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. Companies can help to reverse this.

Wouldn't it have been amazing if we had a President who worked with companies to find ways to optimize sustainability instead of ignoring the real problem in favor of fake ones (e.g. Brown man bad)?

Arsewipe has not mentioned CocaCola biggest polluter on the planet. Is he afraid or on take?

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Sure took them long enough.🙄

Wax paper products perhaps.

time to fix this planet 🙏

Colorado does not EVEN recycle (Basically no public recycle cans.) $15 minimum wage, Joe? Et tu, Cramer?

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For reference, this is one metric ton:

Reduce plastic ...

There is so much plastic thrown already in to the nature that it will have colossal impact on health of our next generations! & solution is more knowledge & awareness in our society. Political wellness & action.

Most of the plastic that ends of in the ocean ends of their from US recycling bins that are shipped to SouthEast Asia. If we disposed of our plastics in regular trash - the oceans would be cleaner - but never let the facts or the truth get in the way of a liberal message.

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Have joe fix it. Lol

Incompetent Obama/Biden’s green alternative to government funded public transportation was Uber.Which resulted in triple more waste, pollution & cuts in bus routes.Riders and bus drivers reduced 80%.Most bus drivers are Africans!

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Wrapp mother Earth in a huge plastic bag and get it over with!

Also why it's silly to blame people for not recycling - it's the companies that push this stuff. Also - virtually no plastic is recycled, it just gets shipped overseas.

And when 'garbage bags' get banned where in christ will all the garbage go?I KNOW,GRETA HAMBURG'S BEDROOM..:) AL GORE'S BASEMENT

More good news please(((

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Third world countries burn the fresh water plastic bottles to cook their food.....how are you cooking your food tonight?

Damn well about time! Plastic recycling is a joke. Must reduce!

ban single-use plastic.

That’s so 2019. Remember 2020, when we were told everyone should stay home and order take out? Yeah, that was a lot of plastic.

its called Hemp. fucking morons

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Please improve yourself every nanosecond...I'm also doing the same. Daily schedule one meeting -- Meeting Agenda - Introspection 1- Meeting room - Toilet 2- Meeting room - Kitchen- while cleaning kitchen utensils No need to share it through Webex/Zoom/Skype/Team BEST OF LUCK

thank you very much for your work

Just remember switching to Plastic from paper bags was dEmOcRaTs idea 💡 lol 🤦‍♂️

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Like returnable bottles and paper products made from hemp are not viable.

How about hemp?

I can imagine all those day traders listening to jimcramer and buying his picks .Then close 2 days after with losses :)

Free drinking water warm, room temp, cold at public places Cut plastic water bottle waste

Please. find alternatives. Doing all one can to go green; it's impossible to not contribute to this assault on the natural world including much guilt at being an ongoing accessory to this ongoing 'crime.'

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Remember the 'throw-away' society? Reuse stuff, people!

STOP WATCHING THIS CLOWN !

I remember when democrats made us get rid of paper bags , made us switch to plastic because the rain forest 🌳 LMFAO , NOW WHAT ? Fuk democrats!

We need an alternative for packaging, biodegradable 👍

Remember when paper was bad? Lol

Some basically we efficiently made calories cheap and easily accessible; now we have a fat lazy society.

This video mentions interesting things: fibers fascinate me. I think it is so underdeveloped as an innovation area. Containers and bags shaped from plant fibers can also be used after fermentation to make pellets for cooking. the list could go on. very interesting stuff.

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It really has gotten soooooo out of hand in single use plastic, absolutkey eco friendly degrading plastics need to be a thing, to just certainly banning some. It's a business though, and the businesses should really start looking at alternatives

How about hemp?

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According to calculations by statistician Liberty Vittert, there are about 7.2 trillion grocery bags of unrecycled plastic waste on Earth today.

Tell that to COMMUNIST CHINA

'exploring'. It's time to IMPLEMENT.

Any of these publicly-traded so I can get in now?

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How about tap water instead of plastic bottled tap water?

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Cellulose may be a good option.

$4 billion US market size of plastic bags becaming battle between chemical industry lobbyists and environmentalists. This is also chance for environmentally friendly bags manufactures.

Plastic waste comes from Asia. Cramer knows that but he is so caught up in millenials dumb ideas he lets personal bias impact professional opinion. See pic of any river mouth in Asia.

Ask Elon Musk, he'll probably be thrilled to send it out towards the sun

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Put this in your environmental pipe and smoke it.

It's much more frightening than that. What can you buy if you recycle all the plastic in the ocean? Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Exxon, GM, AT&T, Facebook, Bank of America, Visa, Intel, HSBC, Boeing, Citigroup & all the NFL & MLB teams.

and the biggest problem remains that regardless of whatever we use for packaging, PEOPLE are irresponsible with it. Punish the litterbugs NOT the packaging companies They do it in Singapore and look how clean their streets are.

Easy solution to a lot of plastic waste ,realDonaldTrump needs to put an executive order banning virgin plastic in home building products and ban LVT products as they go straight into the dump every few years .

I grow up abused and learned to protect myself

Clean it up

For a moment, please, who told you to put plastic in the ocean? The world is fine, the forests are unspoilt and the seas are as well Do not fish in troubled water for political reasons ؛)

Do you know how disturbing this is just bcoz the Mafia bought a child they feel they can say and do what ever with no repacutions

Consumers need to start buying fewer plastics. Companies will go where the money is. Buy a can of Arizona tea instead of a plastic soda bottle

That's like a bunch of grown man and woman throwing around a baby across the room and hoping they can do it again as long as that the baby don't get brain damage after they dropped him many times

What I am going through and been going through is a bunch of grown ass people that will pull a gun to your head and force you to do something and then push you around just bcoz there so many of them

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Outlaw single-use plastics. That simple. Just do it! BTW, Nike had a great quarter.

So should we ban Cruise Ships who continually dump in the Ocean? Please report on their environmental impact. Thanks!

There is plenty of alternatives being found but until then there’s a great company in WasteManagement that does a great job in managing waste.

A lot of restaurants went to plastic for indoor dining.

China stopped taking our waste. The Philippine doesn’t want it either. Technology is the only answer, I guess.

What kind of energy, are you using when making these alternatives? I might have missed that part. Oh, got it. :)

What kind of energy, are you using when making these alternatives? I might have missed that part.

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Stop this straw nonsense, straws make 0.004% of total mass of plastic, the only reason everyone is so obsessed about straws is the only gore video with a damn turtle.

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let's all risk our health just because people can't be bothered to recycle.

We keep hearing about this, but nothing ever seems to come of it. Plastic waste is a huge problem all over the world.

Reusable glass water bottles from my water store, microbial tests perfect every time. Very few believed it. How could possibly be as safe as the stuff sitting in plastic bottles at the store. Branding. They hire me when they fail lab tests. Seriously

Next up: Trumpkins stage protests about how not being able to use plastic violates their freedom.

I'd think it would seem easier to just find new ways to recycle plastic instead of trying to find an alternative to something. Plastic is incredibly convenient and cheap to produce.

burgerking in Simi Valley, CA uses paper straws.

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wastemanagement my 1 pick on the entire planet

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im old enough to remember when we were told we had to change from paper bags to plastic bags so we could save the environment

Cramer is a mashugana

In developed countries, there is a search for a solution to the problem of plastic, BUT, oceans, seas, etc. litter backward countries. People there do not respect nature

a tough problem--i won't be around, but i do believe we will solve this problem by exploring many different avenues---better plastics--alternatives--better cleanup methods

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how about consuming less

This guy has become a joke in the trading industry

$SPAQ sustainability is the key.

Hemp is the answer.

Man-made climate change is generally more mythology than having much empirical foundation (more cosmos related than anything)...BUT plastics destroying our oceans is real. Thank you.

We lost all our paper mills under NAFTA Democrats.

Yeah thanks democrats, they pushed Plastic on us via excuse oh the tree the rain forest LOL you see what happens ? They got rid of paper and glass. Now they want to help solve the problems they caused . This is how they work ! Fuk jim

covid is a hoax to kill nature

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Taking us back to the stone ages. Fred Flintstone would be proud!

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Probable disposal and clean up are the solutions, not banning plastic

How about paper(hemp) and glass? Paper and Glass used to work really really well 40 years ago.

The other half of plastic goes to creating objects for Hollywood wood to use on themselves. I’ve seen the disgorgement of these long limb like featureless plastic all over the streets and from trash cans even in the finer neighborhoods In LA.

Recycle! We don't have to give up our health. Just put the darn things into the pavement. It becomes more durable with plastics mixed in 👍

How does Jim Cramer still show his face on TV after Jon Stewart destroyed him publicly?

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Every week my 96 gallon trash container was filled to the brim. Then at 62, I decided to recycle and ordered a recycle bin. I discovered at the end of the week I could fit my 'trash' into a couple of 15 gallon bags from the kitchen. The recycle bin is full. Eye opener.

It's pathetic

Why do you allow megtirrell to endorse and retweet someone like adamfeuerstein who harasses cancer patients and attacks medical doctors?

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Hopefully mask waste too

this should really keep the liberals happy

Hemp

Paper straws suck

Hemp!

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Great article

The concept of plastic alternatives is a propaganda operation by the oil companies. Yes, really it is.

We do need alternatives...why did we get rid of paper? At least it breaks down... oh the logic of money normally stupid until the adults take over.

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We can use it to build baffles for surge protection for our coastlines.

What Trump is doing is playing to the Republican base as if it was some kind of club that has to stick together without really looking at the issues, only concerned with sticking with Republicans, but if that Republican is not doing the job correctly they have to consider that.

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