78. 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”
