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Speaker 1: Hey, Dina, Hi Mark. So what are we talking about today?

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Speaker 1: We are going to talk about bioplastics. Specifically, we're going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about a report called Bioplastics Primer Market

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Speaker 1: Overview by being a fantaist called il Hansa Vout. So

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Speaker 1: when I read this yesterday, I feel like I understood it,

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Speaker 1: last night. So I was home cooking dinner, listening to

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Speaker 1: the news as I always do, and it kind of

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Speaker 1: just a few lines stating that Malaysia was sending back

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Speaker 1: three thousand tons of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, US, Australia, Japan,

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Speaker 1: France and Canada. The Environment Minister of Maljia said Malaysia

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Speaker 1: all these places um and refusing to accept more. Now,

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Speaker 1: we've got materials everywhere, and the reality is that when

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Speaker 1: So whether that a way is us shipping it to

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of recent attention on social media

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Speaker 1: And it's typically followed up with some sort of picture

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Speaker 1: of something like a sea turtle that's wrestling with a

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Speaker 1: it's it's this very confronting image of human waste going

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Speaker 1: into what we consider, you know, pristine natural spaces that

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Speaker 1: think we can spend a lot of time talking about waste,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully today what we're gonna do is really actually

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Speaker 1: get much more into bioplastics and what some of the

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Speaker 1: innovators are doing to create different materials both from different

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Speaker 1: sources or can be ultimately because of how they're made

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Speaker 1: treated differently end of life bioplastics. There's just an existing

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Speaker 1: small part of the market right now, but let's explore

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Speaker 1: what the future could potentially hold on this and really

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Speaker 1: what bioplastics are, because that's something that until I read

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Speaker 1: this note, I wasn't clear on and I thought I was.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to read Bioplastics Primer Market Overview

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Speaker 1: by Ihan Savut, you can find it on biennef dot

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Speaker 1: com or biennfs mobile app by just searching for the

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Speaker 1: title of the note, or on the Bloomberg terminal at

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Speaker 1: b an ef go. If you're not a client, shoot

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Speaker 1: us an email at sales dot BNF at Bloomberg dot net.

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Speaker 1: And just a quick reminder that BENNF does not provide

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Speaker 1: investment or strategy advice, and you can hear a full

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Speaker 1: disclaimer at the end of our show. So I'm Dana

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Speaker 1: Perkins and I'm Mark Taylor and you're listening to Switch

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Speaker 1: on the NF Client podcast. Joining us today is Dr

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Speaker 1: Julia Atwood, who is our head of Advanced Materials here

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Speaker 1: at b n EF. Welcome to the show, Julia, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me back. Guys, can you start us off

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Speaker 1: today by by just telling us what bioplastics are? I mean,

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Speaker 1: So we're going to break it down into four types.

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Speaker 1: as your power in your manufacturing with clean energy, no

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Speaker 1: patrick chemicals involved, and low energy because recycling is typically

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Speaker 1: coming on that, right, Yes, there is a part two.

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Speaker 1: Part two looks into each of the different plastics in detail,

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Speaker 1: there's also going to be a couple of case studies. Julia,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining. Thanks so much, guys, this is fun.

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