Can Design Thinking Change the Future of Plastics?
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What if the future of plastics doesn’t start in a lab, but in a design studio?
In this episode of Plastic. Climate. Future., we speak with Beat Karrer, founder of FluidSolids, who took an unconventional path from industrial design into material innovation — developing high-performance materials made entirely from waste streams.
From corn cobs to coffee waste, his work challenges a fundamental assumption: that plastics must come from fossil resources.
We explore:
How waste streams can become high-performance material feedstock
Why design thinking is a powerful (and often overlooked) driver of material innovation
What it takes to scale new materials — from pilot to industrial production
Why circularity depends on systems, not just materials
A refreshing and grounded perspective on what it really takes to rethink plastics, not just replace them.
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