Every year, we produce enough plastic to cover the entirety of Manhattan up to our knees. Ali Safavi set out to create a more sustainable method for lab industries. He founded a company that creates sustainable pipette tips, the plastic straw of the lab industry. During his thought-provoking talk, he not only communicates his solution but challenges us to identify the “plastic straw” of our lives. Ali Safavi, founder and CEO of Grenova, is on a mission to enable laboratories around the world to become sustainable and waste-free. Ali founded Grenova, which is short for Green Innovation, shortly after graduating from college using firsthand experience he gained working in the lab industry. Today, his award-winning company has created the only technology solution in the industry that enables life sciences and healthcare laboratories to reduce their plastic consumables cost and biohazard waste by over 90%.
Ali’s ultimate vision is to implement an automated cleaning technology device in every lab across the globe to safely clean and sterilize all of the used plastic consumables from each lab’s daily operation and return them back to the lab for reuse over and over again without any compromise on quality and performance. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx