Restoring Planetary Health: Meet the Entrepreneurs Behind Disappearing Packaging

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Introducing the ‘Startup to Standout’ mini-series, brought to you in partnership with Lloyds Bank. In this episode, Jake connects with business experts at Notpla to dig into the realities of entrepreneurship. Notpla is a cutting-edge company known for creating sustainable packaging solutions using seaweed, aiming to reduce environmental impact.

Notpla co-founder Pierre-Yves Paslier discusses with Jake the inspiration behind their seaweed-based products, showing how they benefit the environment. He shares insights into the challenges of the early years of building the business and what it was like during the initial phases. Jake also chats with Karlijn Sibbel about Notpla's innovative approach and their next big goal: tackling packaging problems with new water barrier technologies. Karlijn also offers valuable advice on fostering innovation in business and prioritising creative thinking.

Lloyds Bank’s purpose is to empower businesses with comprehensive support and guidance for starting, growing, and building a successful business. With their extensive expertise, Lloyds Bank is well-equipped to guide you on your business journey.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Jake Humphrey, and this is from Start Up to Stand Out, a series from
0:06.4	High Performance in partnership with Lloyd's Bank. Here are some numbers I need to
0:10.5	share with you guys before we start this journey.
0:13.0	60% of businesses fail within the first three years.
0:16.3	20% of those businesses fail in the first year
0:19.7	and just 42.5% of new businesses make it.
0:23.9	The truth is that running a business is hard.
0:26.2	And in this series, I'm going to meet fellow entrepreneurs and fellow founders to uncover the
0:30.9	truth behind entrepreneurship, particularly showing the stories of those hard first few difficult years.
0:37.0	On this episode I'm going to visit a business called Notpla who are using, would you believe, seaweed as an alternative to single-use plastic packaging?
0:45.6	Eight million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, and Nopler believes the solution lives in the oceans themselves.
0:52.3	So they've designed a packaging solution from
0:54.1	seaweed that decomposes in just seven weeks compared to the 750 years that it
0:59.7	takes for plastic to decompose. And look I am personally so excited about the conversation today to meet the team.
1:05.6	Noplet are also backed by Lords Bank who provide holistic business support as well as amazing advice on how to start, grow, and build a business. So we're about to meet Pierre
1:15.6	Eves Palier, the co-founder of Nopler at the company's base in East London and get hands
1:20.9	on with its amazing technology.
1:23.3	Pierre.
1:24.7	Hi Jake, nice to see you.
1:26.3	Thank you so much for coming to Notflau.
1:28.3	Thank you for having me.
1:29.0	You know your business idea is right up my street where you can run a business but also help the environment.
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