Group Lead, Ved Krishna
Hello, hello! This is a very special episode – as we have are first in-person interview – straight from the headquarters of Notpla in London – it’s their Co-Founder and Co-CEO Pierre Paslier! We’ve been huge fans of Pierre’s for a long time, so having him on the show is such an honor. To hear him t
0:00 – many waves in this whole domain of uh compostable packaging and packaging...
so hello Pierre this is actually my first in person recording so I’m super excited and I’m so happy that it’s actually with you because you know you’ve been making so many waves in this whole domain of uh compostable packaging and packaging overall I think so thank you so much for agreeing to this and thank you for making it in person yeah no worri
10:00 – as a food product a cheap food product into actually making packaging...
ability of thinking differently about like anything and and proposing a completely different way of like of considering like a situation that is is really powerful and so um we yeah we just kind of like were um super Keen to collaborate on different things um and he started a a a rather out there project of uh making an artificial Cloud so he was u
20:00 – City centers by using U like like plastic bottles discarded plastic bottles...
from Madrid uh Spanish and he first trained as an architect um he actually kind of like U is a true uh like Academia kind of like addict he has five Masters he studied until his 30s finish my one he uh he found a bit the like the trick um um he he managed to find some like great um scholarships which meant that he could keep on like learning and an
30:00 – Pharma industry by the food industry the Cosmetics industry fertilizers industry so...
we we were quite keen on this idea that um we wanted to like today too many packaging Solutions are saying like it’s going to be great if we have 100% of this one end of life that makes sense and like it’s a Pity that we don’t get there but like we really need to get to 100% of this end of life reality is we’re not going to ever hit 100% of one end
41:00 – operating in such a small scale compared to like the Plastics industry...
I mean um it’s hard to speak for the others because I think um they are still at lab scale no one has really kind like put any product on the market except except for not plus so but I think that um each product is almost kind of like requiring a different process and a different like um set of of of conditions to be solved for um but over overwhel
51:00 – the seaweed that we use doesn't necessarily have like the highest barrier...
then you just kind of like dose the oil it’s still technically edible but like this one is a lot thicker so it’s not really kind of like going to be super nice to eat but it’s also kind like a lot more resistant so you can imagine to have kind of like like something a bit more sturdy for applications that require it um and then what’s quite excitin
61:00 – market which of those Brands were putting plastic packaging on the market...
like really into seaweed which is really exciting because I think that Beyond notpla there’s many other really good use of seaweed we need kak to really develop the the whole value chain and and he’s he’s a big believer in that and I think that um he also has yeah like it it it’s not nothing for him to associate himself with this because like a lot
71:00 – legislation just said like plastic whether it's a bioplastic a biodegradable plastic...
natural polymers equals not plastic polymers and basically that legislation just said like plastic whether it’s a bioplastic a biodegradable plastic doesn’t really matter it’s plastic and then those polymers like for example cellulose it’s a polymer that naturally grows in trees Li as well and then there’s like hundreds and hundreds of other polyme
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