This team is the first to use feathers as sustainable insulation materials. Their first product is Pluumo, a sustainable thermal packaging material designed to replace expanded polystyrene used during food deliveries.
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00:00First of all, it's tackling the issue of the millions of tons of waste feather generated
00:15every year.
00:16Secondly, it's also replacing traditional insulators, plastics like expanded polystyrene
00:22or styrofoam as it's also called.
00:43We created Plumo, the world's first sustainable thermal packaging material made from waste
00:48feathers.
00:50The primary material that we're using is obviously waste feather.
00:53We combine that with a small amount of an ecobinder and then we cover the whole thing
00:57with a compostable outer lining.
01:01Feathers are an amazing natural resource, strong, lightweight and thermally insulating
01:05and we came up with the idea of using them for their thermal properties to create sustainable
01:10thermal packaging material.
01:13Plumo is sustainable because it's primarily made from waste material but it's also designed
01:17to be compostable and we're looking at reuse cases whereby how do we get them back from
01:22end users and turn old Plumo packaging into new Plumo packaging again.
01:35The next steps for Aeropowder mainly come down to the fact that we have proven that
01:39Plumo works here.
01:41We want to create sustainable materials anywhere in the world wherever there are feathers.