E78. The Future of Plastic with Kendall Starkman from Lonely Whale

Lonely Whale’s #stopsucking campaign has eliminated approximately 20 billion single-use plastic straws from the waste stream. Today, we learned from Kendall Starkman, the Director of NextWave Plastics, about her work with the consortium of companies convened by the award-winning non-profit Lonely Whale.

In this conversation:

• Plastic credits & plastic neutrality
• How our waste system relies on informal workers in low-income countries
• What does the future of plastic looks like?
• One garbage truck full of plastic is being dumped into the ocean every minute
• How has covid affected plastic reduction efforts?
• What are companies doing to turn to change the future of plastics?

You're gonna love this one, let’s turn off the tap on ocean-bound plastic!

Kendall's Mantra: “What I don’t know is a very good place to start”

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