You don't get Kevin Parker of Tame Impala supporting your idea to use materials from the ocean instead of plastic anywhere.
In order to eliminate global plastic waste and remove carbon from the environment, Perth biotech start-up ULUU just secured $8.6 million from investors including Parker, supermodel Karlie Kloss, and Australian chef and restaurateur Neil Perry. Dr. Julia Reisser is an ocean scientist who has devoted more than ten years to studying the issues and potential remedies related to reducing plastic waste.
Another method of cleaning up the trash involves cleansing the ocean. She understood that in order to clean up the mess, we needed to find a plastic substitute that was both convincing and practical—basically, we needed to stop making plastic and switch to another material. And in order to make one, we must combine two things: on the feedstock, we must switch fossil fuels out for farmed seaweed, something we want to produce more of in the future. The ocean would be cleaned up and would absorb a lot of carbon pollution, which helps with climate change, as well as nitrogen pollution, which is an issue brought on by sewage and fertilizer.