Finding Sustainable Solutions: Dillon Baxter of PlantSwitch

Dillon Baxter is the co-founder and CEO of PlantSwitch, a company providing the highest quality biodegradable alternatives to plastic on the market. 

Dillon started PlantSwitch his senior year at SMU, where he met his co-founder Maxime Blandin. They started PlantSwitch to provide an eco-friendly solution to plastic that felt and functioned like a traditional plastic product, but without the waste and pollution that results from plastic. PlantSwitch began with biodegradable straws and cutlery that are made from the upcycled agave waste from tequila production. In three years, the company calculates it has already displaced more than 375,000 pounds of plastic waste that would have otherwise ended up in landfills.