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Winners Of The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Are All Using Seaweed

Winners Of The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Are All Using Seaweed

As plastic pollution continues to be a global crisis, the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize in partnership with Trousdale Ventures, offers solutions and inspiration for a plastic-free future. The competition winners utilized seaweed to develop thin-film plastic substitutes.

“I think that within the next decade, these are going to become mainstream in the materials that we use and touch,” Phillip Sarofim says. “They're already being adopted across a variety of platforms.”

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