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There's a lot of stuff going on here.

Like, it is definitely like a facility here.

This isn't a gentrified office.

There's work being done here.

Yeah, there's a lot of work being done here.

I'm in a giant warehouse in London, UK, surrounded by industrial machinery.

So we never wanted to do like small scale R&D, so we have like 25 tan injection moulders,

blow moulders so we can really like mimic what happens in industry so that we can scale this

because that's our big thing is we want to replace billions and billions of units of plastic.

Standing next to me is Incia Jafferjee, founder of the Shellworks, a biotech company creating

compostable packaging.

That's our main process that we do these days is making lots and lots of bottles that

behave just like a plastic.

Right, but they're not plastic.

They're not plastic, exactly.

Our tagline is like, this is not plastic.

This is Vivimer, which is the name of the material that we've been developing.

Okay, I thought you were going to say, this is not plastic, this is fantastic.

It is also fantastic.

From construction to healthcare and even the clothes you're wearing, plastic is everywhere.

It's cheap, durable and at the

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