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EPISODE · Nov 13, 2025 · 34 MIN

We Tested The Machine That Eats Plastic Waste: You Won't Believe

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Recycling efforts overlook the complex global systems and overwhelmed infrastructure between trash and the processing plant. Inventor Ivan Arbouzov, successful in optics and electronics, founded ClearDrop to design household "pre-recycling" appliances. This radical idea promotes effortless individual participation and creates tools for better habits, sidestepping reliance on policy changes. We interviewed Arbouzov for The Green New Perspective Podcast about his shift from tech to plastic waste, common recycling misconceptions, and his view of waste as a design problem.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎥 [WEBINAR] - From Cost Center to Revenue DriverThe CFO-Proof Marketing Playbook: How Manufacturers Prove Marketing’s Revenue Impact In HubSpot⏱️ Date: Thursday, November 20, 2 PM EST👉 REGISTER HERE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Episode Resources:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Guest: Ivan Arbouzov, President & CEO at Clear Drop, Inc.Website: https://onecleardrop.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onecleardrop/🎧 Subscribe to our podcast:━━━━━━━━━━━━━Spotify: https://bit.ly/3PSWIyIApple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RvlHteYoutube: https://bit.ly/3RDzkXgDeezer: https://bit.ly/3PvQaofAmazon Music: https://bit.ly/3PQlijS

Recycling efforts overlook the complex global systems and overwhelmed infrastructure between trash and the processing plant. Inventor Ivan Arbouzov, successful in optics and electronics, founded ClearDrop to design household "pre-recycling" appliances. This radical idea promotes effortless individual participation and creates tools for better habits, sidestepping reliance on policy changes. We interviewed Arbouzov for The Green New Perspective Podcast about his shift from tech to plastic waste, common recycling misconceptions, and his view of waste as a design problem.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎥 [WEBINAR] - From Cost Center to Revenue DriverThe CFO-Proof Marketing Playbook: How Manufacturers Prove Marketing’s Revenue Impact In HubSpot⏱️ Date: Thursday, November 20, 2 PM EST👉 REGISTER HERE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Episode Resources:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Guest: Ivan Arbouzov, President & CEO at Clear Drop, Inc.Website: https://onecleardrop.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onecleardrop/🎧 Subscribe to our podcast:━━━━━━━━━━━━━Spotify: https://bit.ly/3PSWIyIApple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RvlHteYoutube: https://bit.ly/3RDzkXgDeezer: https://bit.ly/3PvQaofAmazon Music: https://bit.ly/3PQlijS

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