Insia Jafaji

Yeah, there's a lot of work being done here.

So we never wanted to do small-scale R&D, so we have 25-tonne injection moulders, blow moulders, so we can really mimic what happens in industry, so that we can scale this, because that's our big thing, is we want to replace billions and billions of units of plastic.

That's our main process that we do these days, is making lots and lots of bottles that behave just like plastic.

They're not plastic, exactly.

Our tagline is like, this is not plastic, this is Vivamer, which is the name of the material that we've been developing.

It is also fantastic.

Plastic waste cannot be dealt with well.

And so that's why we see so much plastic pollution.

And we see that impacting so many different elements.

So the plastic pollution, if it ends up in oceans, it disrupts animal life.

Actually, there's research on how microplastics are...

taking away from oceans' waves to absorb CO2.

So there are so many ripple effects of the fact that our waste infrastructures aren't able to deal with plastics.

That's one of the key reasons.

The second, which is emerging science and research, is the impacts that plastics and microplastics could be having on our health.

Particularly the chemicals that are used in plastics have endocrine-disrupting elements.

More and more is being uncovered in there, which suggests that it's not good for our long-term health.

OK, so why don't we... We can do a tour.

Yeah.

OK, so we're going to start by going through here.