Agave straws and cactus plastic
About this episode
The episode discusses agave straws and features an interview with Dr. Sandra Pascoe Ortiz about her compostable plastic solution.
We’ve talked about agave straws in previous episodes, but I’ve been spending more time digging into them. And more than that, I’ve been spending time reading about – and now speaking with – Dr. Sandra Pascoe Ortiz, who has developed a plastic that is compostable and leaves behind no microplastics. So is this a solution for our plastics problem?
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