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As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern Thai island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their wares -- not seafood, but plastic. The villagers, members of the semi-nomadic Moken people, are selling to Tide, a start-up attempting to create new value from old plastic collected from or near the sea.

Recyclers have long scooped up some of the over six million tonnes of plastic that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates enters the ocean each year. But Tide works directly with everyone in the process, from collectors in remote Thai fishing villages to carpet manufacturers in the Netherlands.
Transcript
00:00This is the first time I've ever seen this.
00:17It hurts a lot.
00:19It burns fast, right?
00:20Yes, it burns fast.
00:30The first time I've ever seen this.
00:53Because you have to start somewhere
00:55and the more products that are being launched
00:58and prove that the quality is just the same
01:01convince others to switch too.
01:03So we see and we are quite convinced
01:07that we are at the beginning of a new wave.

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