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*PREVIEW* Post-Shug Clarity

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We've found another terrible startup: a billion-dollar-valuation 'plastic recycling' venture that is too dangerous to actually work (but would absolve the oil industry of any need to change its business model). It operates via a concept called shuggling. It also has yet again involved a promised factory in Ohio that will never exist. Prepare to get shuggled. If you'd like to hear the full episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/56489822 If you’re in the UK and want to help Afghan refugees and internally displaced people, consider donating to Afghanaid: https://www.afghanaid.org.uk/ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Smoke returns for another night of new material from pro-comics featuring Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Jordan Brookes. See it all, for the low price of £5, on September 28 at 8 pm at The Sekforde Arms (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-featuring-jordan-brookes-tickets-171869475227 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

I was waiting for you to say like carbon capture.

0:16.0

Like carbon capture.

0:18.0

Sorry, I thought I had beaten that one.

0:22.4

I know. Comedy comes in fours, Alice.

0:24.8

So, like... Like carbon capture.

0:26.3

Reuters reviewed 30 advanced recycling projects and found none of them worked.

0:32.6

None of them at all. Not a single one.

0:34.2

But that didn't stop Procter & Gamble from...

0:39.3

I've looked under so many propped-up cardboard boxes, and there's never anything good in there.

0:45.9

And every time the box falls on top of me.

0:49.3

What the fuck?

0:50.0

31, it's going to have the answer.

0:52.6

So, basically, Procter & Gamble creates this process quite a long time ago in the 1990s, right? And Procter and Gamble actually then said that their global business development director already knew the people at PureCycle's parent company, and then

1:12.3

basically licensed them the technology, which, by the way, according to the Hindenberg report,

1:18.0

doesn't work, can't scale, and then joined PureCycle as the VP of Commercial and Business Development.

1:27.3

So basically, a guy at Procter & Gamble took an old process and then brought it to this other

1:34.3

company where they then sort of dressed it up like it was some sort of big, big innovative new thing.

1:39.8

And now that's being used to say forstall real action on sort of the plastic waste crisis, more or less.

1:47.7

Is it good?

1:48.3

It's a shame, isn't it?

1:49.1

Everything is reboots for you, it's not.

1:51.5

No one can come up with anything.

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