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This interview is with Alex Blum, the CEO of Applied Bioplastics and award-winning philanthropic filmmaker. Blum has had a fantastic career and heads a company leading the way in the bioplastics industry with its development of innovative decarbonized plastics used in refugee housing. AZoCleantech delves into Alex Blum's career, plastic recycling challenges, and what Applied Bioplastics brings to the sustainable plastics industry.
While Vietnam is ranked 16th among the countries possessing the highest biodiversity globally with rare and precious genetic resources, the country is facing a rapid degradation of biodiversity and other great challenges such as environmental pollution, land degradation, ocean plastic waste and other extreme impacts of climate change.
Trillions of plastic particles have been found floating in the world’s oceans. Ocean plastic pollution is parallel with increased plastic production and demand throughout the decades, harming various marine animal species and different marine ecosystems, including coral reef habitats.
As Earth's largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tons of food each day. They also now are ingesting huge amounts of plastic, according to scientists, due to the alarming volume of tiny particles of pollution choking the oceans.