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This looks like plastic. It feels like plastic. It works like plastic. But watch what happens when I put it in water. It disappears. This is Sharon Barak. I'm a chemical engineer. It's designed not to break down. So Chiron spent years experimenting with polymers until she created this. A material that can be manufactured like plastic, use like plastic, but has a completely different ending. This one can become waste for hundreds of years, but this one is designed to biodegrade without leaving behind microplastics. And depending on how Chiron engineers it, it can be biodegradable, applied to other materials, making them more sustainable. But inventing it was only half the problem. Because replacing plastic means competing with one of the cheapest, most useful materials ever invented. So Chiron had to prove this could actually work in the real world. On real packaging machines machines for real companies at massive scale. We have partners with leading packaging manufacturers all over the world. We didn't want to invent machines to adjust to our material. So we adjust our material to the industry. Jerome isn't trying to get us to stop using packaging. She's trying to change what happens after we throw it away so that the products we use don't wind up outliving us.

This looks like plastic. It feels like plastic. It works like plastic. But watch what happens when I put it in water. It disappears. This is Sharon Barak. I'm…