What I’m reading now
Zume a company that is picking up on the trend that with more uber eats, door dash, and grub hub deliveries the more the millenials are using non-reusable plastics and material such as styrofoam that isn’t being recycled. The solution is a company called Zume Inc of Southern California. They just bought Pivot, who is a designer of plant-based packaging material. Along with the deal, Zume will be opening a 70,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in the area and they plan to replace 1 billion Styrofoam containers.
How to be great is starting at being good and practicing over and over and over again with micro improvements in your daily life.
reference: https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great
Recycling plastic can become one of the worlds biggest business especially as 68% of the worlds plastic sits dormant in landfills at the moment…
reference: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full
The growth of plastics production in the past 65 years has substantially outpaced any other manufactured material. The same properties that make plastics so versatile in innumerable applications—durability and resistance to degradation—make these materials difficult or impossible for nature to assimilate. Thus, without a well-designed and tailor-made management strategy for end-of-life plastics, humans are conducting a singular uncontrolled experiment on a global scale, in which billions of metric tons of material will accumulate across all major terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the planet. The relative advantages and disadvantages of dematerialization, substitution, reuse, material recycling, waste-to-energy, and conversion technologies must be carefully considered to design the best solutions to the environmental challenges posed by the enormous and sustained global growth in plastics production and use.