Will Cutting Plastic Increase Profits?
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🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Unilever, the $130 billion consumer goods company, announced a pledge to cut its use of new plastics in half by 2025. Seth Jayson analyzes how the move could benefit the environment as well as Unilever’s shareholders, and shares why packaging company AptarGroup is worth keeping an eye on. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to search for inexpensive industries and discuss whether pursuing a finance degree in college is still a good option.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Grammarly for supporting Market Foolery. |
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| 0:15.0 | It's Monday, October 7th. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today, the one and only, Seth Jason. |
| 0:23.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah, grammar. |
| 0:25.6 | Me not use grammarly. |
| 0:27.5 | We all need grammarly, my friend. |
| 0:29.5 | Quick shout out to Mac Greer for all of his work last week week when Mac said I was resting my voice he was |
| 0:34.7 | being polite I had severe laryngitis which is not fun fun it's not fun for anyone but if you're |
| 0:39.2 | in my line of work it's particularly a problem so uh it's nice to be back. |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to dip into the full mail bag. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to do a little bargain hunting in the world of stock investing, |
| 0:48.0 | but we're going to start with Unilever, the Consumer Goods Giant, |
| 0:54.0 | Unilever announced it is pledging to cut its use of new plastics by 2025. |
| 1:01.0 | And Unilever is one of those companies that I'm sure a lot of people they hear the name |
| 1:06.4 | they may not be familiar with it. |
| 1:07.8 | Chances are you've got Unilever products in your home. |
| 1:11.4 | What do your armpits smell like? |
| 1:12.8 | Probably their soap, right? |
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