Recently, avantium, a Dutch biochemical company, began to invest in an innovative project to make plastics from plant sugar rather than fossil fuels.
The project has been supported by companies such as Carlsberg, Coca Cola and Danone.
Tom van aken, chief executive of avantium, said he hopes to make a significant investment in the project by the end of this year. Although the Netherlands is currently in a "closed city" state affected by the new crown epidemic, the project is still in progress, and the progress of cooperation with other food and beverage companies will be announced later this summer.
It is understood that about 300 million tons of plastics are made from fossil fuels every year, which is the main cause of the climate crisis. Most of them are not recyclable, and aggravate the pollution of microplastics in the world's oceans, which will take hundreds of years to completely decompose.
Composting equipment can decompose in one year
Avantium's plant plastics are resilient enough to hold carbonated beverages. The experiment shows that the plant plastic can decompose in one year with composting equipment. If placed in normal outdoor conditions, it will take several years to decompose. Tom van aken said the plant plastic would ideally be recycled as well.
"This plastic is very sustainable, it doesn't use fossil fuels, it can be recycled, and it can degrade much faster in nature than ordinary plastic." Tom van aken added.
The bioplastic refinery plans to break down sustainable plant sugars into simple chemical structures and then rearrange them to form a new plant-based plastic that could appear on supermarket shelves in 2023.
The Pathfinder project is expected to initially produce 5000 tons of plastic a year from sugar in corn, wheat or beets. Avantium expects its production to grow as demand for renewable plastics increases.
As the project progresses, avantium plans to use plant sugar from biological waste from sustainable sources to reduce the impact on the global food supply chain.
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