The company says it’s the first to offer a fully biodegradable solution that leaves no microplastics behind and doesn’t require special equipment to manufacture or biodegrade
Plastic bottles litter the beach in Milnerton, Cape Town. File photo: SUPPLIEDA British startup’s innovation to tackle plastic pollution by decomposing the material into a wax that’s digested by nature is making inroads in Asia.
Godrej Consumer Products in India will also start to use Polymateria’s packaging beginning later in 2021, he said. The startup also has licensing agreements with other plastics producers in the Philippines and Malaysia. The deals are part of the London startup’s plan to tackle one of the world’s biggest waste problems: so-called fugitive plastic from snack wrappers, cups and shopping bags that finds its way into oceans and landfills.
In Taiwan, some 7-Eleven stores are now carrying cheese-baked rice meals in Polymateria’s disposable packaging. Uni-President Enterprises, which operates the outlets, plans to cut its use of disposable plastics to less than 20% of packaging by 2023, according to its website.Mumbai-based Godrej, meanwhile, will start making biodegradable poly bags and plastic wrapping that encases soap bars using the technology this year.
Formosa eventually plans to manufacture hundreds of thousands of tonnes of biodegradable resin that will be transformed into packaging materials starting from 2022. It’s a key pillar of Formosa’s plan to make all its polypropylene resins for packaging biodegradable by 2025, according to the company.
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