Bio-Based Materials: Could They Help Mitigate The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is Rick Passenier, the co-founder and executive board member of GO!PHA, an organization that accelerates the adoption of innovative materials with the potential to benefit the planet and people.
Rick has a background in industrial product design. Drawing from this experience, he is on a mission to innovate the plastics business using a variety of applications. With a desire to mitigate the impact of plastic pollution, Rick wants to use biologically sustainable materials in a safe and effective way – and he believes that GO!PHA could fulfill this ambition…
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- What PHA is, and why it is so innovative.
- Why PHA can be used as an alternative to plastic.
- The ways that biotechnology comes into contact with material science to create PHA.
- Why it has been challenging to scale up PHA production.
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| 1:33.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. I have Rick Kesseneer, |
| 1:38.1 | he's a co-founder and executive board member of Go PHA. The PHA is a chemical |
| 1:43.8 | polyhydroxyocenolate. I hope I pronounced that properly. There's a global organization for it. |
| 1:50.0 | It's called Go PHA. It comprises the coalition of over 60 stakeholders and include the material |
| 1:56.3 | producers themselves, brand owners, academia, waste management organizations, innovative |
| 2:01.7 | material startups, environmental foundations, etc. So we're going to talk about Rick's role |
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