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From Plastic Waste to Planet-Safe Labs — with Greg Kwak of Diversified Biotech
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In this episode of Clear Haze Exchange, Marcus Hazelwood sits down with Greg Kwak, Vice President of Business & Product Development at Diversified Biotech, a Massachusetts-based company leading the charge toward sustainable lab consumables.
Greg shares how PlanetSafe, their plant-based alternative to traditional lab plastics, is reshaping research and healthcare through science-driven sustainability. The two discuss how innovation, transparency, and equity all play a role in making labs more sustainable — without sacrificing performance.
What you’ll learn:
- How Diversified Biotech turned sugarcane into a plant-based replacement for single-use plastics
- Why “scope 3 emissions” matter for research and healthcare facilities
- How sustainable manufacturing reduces carbon impact by up to 90 percent
- Why true sustainability also means equity for the people producing the materials
- What circularity and “sustainably scalable” design mean for the future of science
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