The world is drowning in plastic pollution. Plastic manufacturing currently accounts for a large and growing fraction of global CO₂ emissions, while only a small percentage of plastic is ever recycled. Our aim is to achieve meaningful environmental change by designing a bioplastic that is cost and performance competitive with petroleum-based plastics.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Sustainable Chemicals™ has pioneered a process to create a new renewable, biodegradable bioplastic. Our plastic comes from plant biomass, and at the end of its lifecycle, will be capable of returning to the earth without causing harm to our bodies or the ecosystem, while still delivering the performance expected by consumers. Best of all, our plastic uses a raw material that is cheaper than that of its petrochemical competitors – polyethylene and polypropylene.
When deployed at a global scale, we anticipate that our bioplastics could avoid the substantial CO₂ emissions from conventional plastics production and meaningfully reduce accumulations of microplastics and other plastic waste in the environment.