#5 Pt. 1 "How to Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis” with Jose Miguel Gutierrez @ Re:ganic

#5 Pt. 1 "How to Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis” with Jose Miguel Gutierrez @ Re:ganic

Chance Thompson
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About this episode

Meet sustainable entrepreneur Jose Miguel Gutierrez AKA The Symbiotic 🐢. He and his company Re:ganic are changing the game in the space of bio-plastics. Learn how they turn a wasted resource into a replacement for plastic films. We talk family, motivation, and systems change along the way.


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🔑 KEY POINTS


Re:ganic is creating a drop-in replacement for plastic that doesn’t cost more than plastic film production. This is critical, because as long as oil is the cheapest solution we will keep using it to create plastic materials. If the cost is the same or lower for sustainable materials, WE CAN SHIFT to a better system.


Chitosan, found in shrimp shells and mushrooms, is one of the most abundant resources on Earth and is the key ingredient to this process!


EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility): Creates an accountability for packaging and consumption through a fee structure. While it is important for all to be accountable (including the individual), producers must make changes to help us all be sustainable in how we live each day.


LCA (Life Cycle Assessment): Looking at the life of a product from start to finish is the way of the present and future for healthier supply chain innovation.


Can we turn unsustainable systems into regenerative opportunities? ie: The waste from the shrimp industry can become a zero waste solution to address plastic pollution (this is what we would call regeneration!)


Sustainability is personal… Love for yourself and family is everything!


A silver~lining of COVID… “We need to realize how much we are affecting the environment and how we can solve these problems.” - Jose AKA The Symbiotic 🐢


💡 RESOURCE CENTER


Jose's Website


Chitosan Defined


EPR Expanded


EPR Regulations


Biomimicry Example


Biomimicry Expanded


NY Times Article from Paul


🎶 Music: Cranky Conductor


🍄  MYCELIUM PARTNERSHIP (hosts, moderators, & supporters)


Hosting partners: Sam Reader, Simon Jones, Hayley Garner at WONDR


Guests & Moderators:  Aurora Dawn Benton Jose Miguel Gutierrez Nicholas Zaccheo Sujata Eyrick Paul Salinger


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Buy Them a Coffee or Two (mention "Jose" in the notes & we'll share 75% of the $$$ with him)



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