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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Well July, Matt, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure you know this is plastic free July. People

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Speaker 1: being urged to really think about and limit their use

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Speaker 1: of plastics, not just for the month of July, but

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Speaker 1: going forward. And that's a big, big issue globally. Uh,

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Speaker 1: certainly here in the United States in terms of limiting pollution.

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Speaker 1: Stuart Landisburg, co founder and CEO of Grove Collaborative. He

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Speaker 1: joins us, Stewart, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about this plastic crisis if you will,

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Speaker 1: in terms of you know, our landfills. Just give us

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Speaker 1: some numbers to kind of frame it out for us. Sure,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me. Uh. The plastic is

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Speaker 1: an environmental crisis at the same level as some of

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Speaker 1: the impacts of animal agriculture and the carbon dependent dependent

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Speaker 1: energy account. The prevalence of plastic throughout our society is

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Speaker 1: incredible because our ability to dispose of the enormous amount

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Speaker 1: of plastic to be created is so limited. We make

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Speaker 1: worldwide almost a trillion with a t pounds of plastic

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Speaker 1: every year, almost fifty percent of that single use plastic

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Speaker 1: packaging alone. So single use plastic packaging about four hundred

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Speaker 1: billion pounds produced annually, And no matter how much plastic

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Speaker 1: we put into our recycling bins, only about nine gets recycled.

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Speaker 1: So you have this incredibly massive machine shirting out forever garbage,

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Speaker 1: But here's here's the thing that he just said that

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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like we take so much time

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Speaker 1: question for Stewart, if we haven't back, he's back, why

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Speaker 1: you know, who are the biggest offenders in terms of

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Speaker 1: for example, the SMP five or Stoxis Hunter companies that

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Speaker 1: much single use plastic that they know is going to

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Speaker 1: end up just polluting the planet. It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you've heard me say before

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Speaker 1: And so the biggest companies from a plastic solution standpoint.

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Speaker 1: our products, materials like aluminum that are infinitely recyclable. Materials

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Speaker 1: a large, successful organization is really big, and that's why

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Speaker 1: Is there one big you know, uh dam that has

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Speaker 1: we need to see, like government interaction. I would love

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Speaker 1: will drive companies to change their behavior. Gotta vote with

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Speaker 1: your dollar. Stuart Landisburg, co founder and CEO of Grove Collaborative.

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. Let's get over right now to daniel

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Speaker 1: De Martino Bouch. She's CEO and director of Intelligence at

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Speaker 1: Quill Intelligence. She used to be an advisor the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Danielle or I am. I I have not written anything

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Speaker 1: seen yields come down, down, down, ever since the Fed.

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Speaker 1: technicals played a role. But I think if you looked

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Speaker 1: live Matt Miller in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio. So

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Speaker 1: Fortnight suit against Apple, and you know these companies will

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