How Cleaning Up Plastic Pollution Is Making Millions 

I'm glad there are companies trying. I'm also all for charging manufacturers to clean up their product waste. Enough of that, and they will find alternative packaging if possible.

Developed countries send "recycling" to poor countries to make it their problem.

This is a sad story. Rich countries buying extremely cheap labor to make themselves and customer feel better. This is hardly a solution of any sort. I’d gladly pay extra for using recycled materials but everyone just want’s everything as cheap as they can get it.

New plastic should be taxed on it’s environmental impact and suddenly using recycled plastic would be monetarily competitive. Necessary since corporations never choose to be environmentally conscious unless it aligns with profit

The work these companies are doing is huge in bringing awareness and the best possible solution currently ! They are a stepping stone to a cleaner future!

it is amazing that we only see an alternative to plastic through profit mechanisms. When you say that in the US it is cheaper to buy new plastic than to recycle and take it as a natural law that companies have the right to pollute the world for centuries in exchange for a higher profit margin the catastrophe is inevitable. What a brilliant idea to create plastic credits, have you looked at how carbon credits are working? I recommend a look at the latest IPCC report... not all solutions come by market means. We need to impose sanctions on plastics immediately. All waste is a design error.

"Selling credits" is just a codeword for making money out of thin air. If you want to reduce plastic, make a cap on production, don't allow shady companies to make money out of increasing the price for the consumer.

Meanwhile Coca-Cola making billions selling plastic lol

I've paddled all over the U.S., steams, rivers, lakes and coasts, and it is very distressing to see the amount of plastic and other waste littering our country. I always clean up the area around where I camped, but there is a limit to what one person in a kayak or canoe can do. We simply must ban single use plastics especially those that can be replaced with very recyclable aluminum (drink containers) or a reusable substitute (carry bags).

Wow! it’s great to see companies such as RePurpose Global finding innovative ways to recycle hazardous plastic waste and make the world a better place 💪🏻🌎

I work for a company that creates MILLIONS of plastic pieces every SHIFT... and NONE of them are recyclable by the general public. "What are the pieces?" you ask... butter bowls, sour cream and chip dip containers, cake frosting cups, cat treat containers and our biggest seller... travel wipe container flip top lids... We grind printed scrap parts in house and sell that. But only unprinted scrap can be reused by our plant. But what is at your house can only go into your trash can....

Honestly I’m just so happy to know that organisations like repurpose exists. They’re not just offsetting but they’re actually building capacity for existing waste management infrastructure. My hope is that economies that pollute the most per capita (especially those with high GNI per capita) are forced to offset en masse

rePurpose is doing amazing work by making a change that few other organizations are working towards! Props to them for the work they are doing towards plastic waste removal and making the world a better and more sustainable place! There are definitely worse things to spend money on and invest than something that leaves a better world for our future generations!

Repurpose is doing amazing work It’s sad when people don’t understand the hard work which goes into it Social endeavours should be encouraged .and I appreciate 😍the wonderful work they do This is great step taken by the repurpose team I truly love the effort Don’t look back guys Go ahead and do your job And clean Mother Earth 🌍 She will be truly happy

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on fraustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

Good work !. Big thank you to people and companies trying to save the planet.

So amazing to see these companies using innovative business models to tackle the plastic problem! Eventually every dollar they earn is used to actually recycle plastic that would have ended up in a landfill/ocean. It's going to take years for regulation and supply chains to catch up to the plastic issue and businesses like these allow us to start making a real impact TODAY!!

Companies like rePurpose are not the silver bullet solution but are absolutely needed to bridge the gap of where we are now to where we need to be on dealing with the global plastic crisis and frankly climate justice in general. What sets rePurpose apart, from my point of view, is that they require companies to do the internal circularity work (reduce plastic usage, incorporate more PCR, transition to other better materials etc.) while in parallel working with them to take action on plastic that they cannot yet design out of or that will take time to address. It's not a pay to pollute structure, it's a fix your mess internally and externally structure while we find a better way to circulate goods to 8 billion humans. I think what a lot of people don't understand is that everyone, all companies, all the global leading organizations are looking for scalable alternatives to plastic (and disposable packaging overall) but there aren't yet (technology-wise) many packaging formats that fit into companies' current supply chains or that they are willing to take a big bet on that do the following: 1) keep their products and ingredients safe for use and shelf stable 2) create fewer lifecycle-wide negative environmental impacts (more emissions, more energy use for manufacturing or cleaning, etc.) and that 3) will be purchased by consumers because people expect to get a specific type of product in a specific type of packaging As such it's going to take many more years for us to execute on what the WWF is calling for in this video and what rePurpose and other similar companies are proposing is to do something better than litter, burn and dump plastic in the interim. Plastic (and other waste) is and will continue to end up in places where there is NO infrastructure to deal with it (knowingly and unknowingly), create cascading environmental impacts and continue the ongoing humanitarian crisis of the impacts of mismanaged waste -- where people are bearing the brunt of climate change despite having virtually not contributed to it from a human development standpoint. Why is it that environmental companies that make money advancing some part of Sustainability get scrutinized for increased revenues but companies that are selling products that are bad for us and bad for the planet are on a pedestal for holding our economy together -- and where this journalist probably has stocks invested?

Thanks to companies like rePurpose for not only finding alternative solutions for this global issue but also slowly transforming the waste sector in developing countries. Most importantly, by working closely with the waste workers, they are constantly finding ways to improve their personal and professional lives which have always been ignored.

I love the video! It's very insightful! It clearly shows the huge gap between how developed and developing countries manage our waste. However, the lack of proper waste management, especially regarding plastic, will eventually become OUR problem as we share the planet and its oceans! We cannot wait for the most effective solutions; we must start NOW! At Plastic Bank, our goal is for businesses to reduce their plastic use and reuse recycled plastic as much as possible. While we work on the complexities of converting to recycled plastic, we can begin by offsetting our plastic footprint through plastic credit programs. At least we are taking action and trying to make a difference.

rePurpose is a great game changer to the way hazardous plastic is given a second innings to be usefully put to use and the process of which money goes directly into the hands of the plastic scrap collectors and large companies using plastics are made channel partners in this social endeavour hope to see rePurpose penetrates deeper into the world to do its bit to save humanity from plastics

Wow! Repurpose Global is doing an amazing job. I believe that every big company above a certain scale should make it mandatory to finance waste management infrastructure in order to prevent plastic from polluting the environment. This is an ingenious idea because it provides environmental benefits, creates economic opportunities for the unorganized waste management sector, and promotes innovation that breeds healthy competition in this space. If all companies had to finance this operation, they would be forced to become conscious of the quantity and quality of waste they emit.

DON’T FORGET! Only a small percentage of recycled waste collected in first world country actually gets recycled. The rest gets dumped in third world country. So those plastics collected from those third world countries for this featured initiative actually represent global waste rather than just waste from those local area.

While I am proud of Asis and his wife and I do like the corporations that are getting involved in plastic recycling in developing countries, according to the statistics that have been posted at the end of the OCN channel (Ocean Conservation Namibia) over 25,000 tons of plastic enter the worlds oceans every day! source WWF . The Ocean Cleanup channel is also trying to do their part but no one can keep up with that! Big oil companies are making billions in profits while they are also the biggest contributors to the plastic problem!!!

Amazing to see rePurpose trying to clean up the environment with plastic waste management. It’s important to invest in waste management infrastructure particularly in places where none exist

This must be a very lucrative business

Impose a tax on virgin plastic in order to make recycled plastic cheaper. However, there is a drawback. Would people be willing to drink from a container made from recycled plastic that came from the landfill? What are the health hazards?

Men should not be using plastic bottles as some of the particles can act like estrogen in the body, we all have nano particles of plastic in our systems. If you have low testosterone, get yourself a large metal cup and ditch the plastic bottles. Yes not all plastic is the same, but your better off using the larger less cheap bottles. I would like them to do a series on how evasive plastic is in our society and all the negative health impacts

It’s important that these companies are tackling issues in the present and creating this infrastructure and stimulating the conversation around plastic removal

Subsidiaries of those making billions off its production and careless dumping LOL

Lmao its so funny to see rich folks in developed countries satisfy their guilty conscience.

One mans trash is another mans health insurance 😄. Im so glad to hear this kinda stuff id going on!

It would be amazing if everyone left the packaging behind when they bought something at a store - that would force storefronts and manufacturers alike to change their ways...

Why are people still saying all the plastic that's ever produced is still here? Of course it isn't. A lot of it has already been burned in waste-to-electricity plants. And these are even "experts" who are claiming this. 🙄

I have been buying some stocks since the beginning of the year, but nothing substantial. Why am I treating this poorly? However, people in the same profession are earning six figures on articles, which inspires me to aim toward becoming the first person in my polygamous family to hit the million dollar mark. I am perfectly aware that working harder to gain more money is expensive.

Gawd, that makes me feel soo baad. They have to clean up after us. We're like a child with more money but not the skills to clean up after ourselves so other people have to. I get that labor is even worse in production of most things we buy which not good either. This does give me hope that we can actually have somewhat of a clean world and I really like the concept and think it's great that these people get paid well in comparison to the average there but I do feel like we need to do things too. Go down there and help as example rather than just ticking a box paying a few cents more.

Great series about the einvoronment. Thanks. I think every company should be obligated to clean as much plastic as it produces. The same goes for CO2 and other materials.

21st century: celebrating the success of companies make billions in profit while killing the environment while we pick on minor inconveniences that is outside the scope of RePurpose and other legit organisations trying to actually clean up!

In the U.S., this program could work for homeless people who like collecting and recycling things for money. I'm surprised there's not already a pilot program in effect already. I really want to learn of the REAL nonsensical reasons why it isn't economically feasible to recycle plastic in the U.S.. It's ridiculous that any country, no matter how wealthy or poor they are, should be overly reliant on other countries to recycle their own recyclables for them. If anything, the UN should make it a goal for all member states to have their own methods of recycling that discourages them from exporting it to be recycled.

America has this problem and this needs to be solved

There should be big plastic recycling factories outside of every city that collects and recycles plastic for the given city. It should be non-profit and there should be bins in every street to be collected. When you consider the amounts of money spent by the government on uselsee things, 20-30 million dollars every year for plastic neutral cities are nothing. There should be laws that state plastic used by the companies on their products should be compatible with those recycling factories processes. These changes will happen in the future but it will happen when it's too late and when we already see the impact on our daily lives.

How many ads just played..?

@CNBC thanks for this video! i really enjoy your educational videos and especially your "CNBC make it" channel. if a company can make $ cleaning up waste and making a positive difference, why not go for it? cheers 🍻from southern ontario, canada 🍁

Greenwashing, horrible practice, it make the companies look sustainable and green while leaving the real problem intact and undisturbed, microplastics.

Whenever anyone says Uber for __________, you know they have nothing to sell other than words.

Good question: How do we clean this up? Better question: Why is it there in the first place?

10:15 Hope they got their money from Credit Suisse up front.

Perhaps every country should have plastic usage tax % on those companies. They more plastic they used in manufacturing, the higher tax % they need to pay. Then country will use these fund to subsidies on recycling cost

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9:34 humanity is smart enough to artificially reproduce human speech and text. i'm sure, if the demand was present, we'd be able to eliminate plastic packaging

Just being more Consiousness mindful would help tremendously. They put so many stupid stickers on everything. Cleaner trash and less ignorant advertising commercial world.

That why China didn't take recycling materials from the Western world anymore. Now these Western countries shipped their recycling materials to Southeast Asia Countries and Africa countries...where the rules of law are not really enforced.

Nearly the exact same video was made in 1995

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Humans want benefits. They want to gain something or why would they want to do it unless its forced upon them. Sadly, humans have always been like this.

Landfill it all. Anything else is making certain groups wealthy, and nothing works better than collection and bury in landfills. Chances are the people collecting have removed garbage bins to force littering thus a steady source of income. Sorry to break it to you.

Knowing that SCJohnson is supporting PlasticBank and are using 100% recycled plastic for their Windex bottles, moving forward I'm buying Windex bottles that are made by SCJohnson.

Easier solution: ban soda

how? by polluting with plastic waste

The developed countries always blame developing nation such as Indonesia, cause of plastic.. and yet indonesia is doing it's part.. while the developed countries say.. it is not economic viable to do it, so you do nothing ?

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"Billions!" China

Is this the oil companies’ latest attempt to get us to keep using their products? 😆

penalize companies for the trash they make and problem solved

lol “offsets”

China used to take then somewhere else takes it

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Sounds like exploitation.