The Startup Helping CPGs Ditch Single-Use Plastic with Ben Stern | Pitchfest 2022 Series
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There’s a big chance the items you’ll find in your bathroom make up some of the 120bn units of packaging produced by the beauty industry annually. And those single-use amenity bottles in hotels? According to The Wall Street Journal, an estimated 5bn of them are thrown away yearly. But Nohbo, Winner of The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2022, has developed a solution to help CPGs and the hospitality industry ditch single-use plastic. Encapsulating your favourite personal care products into plastic-free single-use or full-size ‘serves’ that disappear with water. → Shownotes: http://www.ocean-impact.org/podcast/ben-stern-helping-cpgs-ditch-single-use-plastic → Nohbo: https://nohbo.com/ → Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nohboinc/ → Ben on Shark Tank (age 16): https://youtu.be/bMFfxDUG-jE
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