An Israeli startup has developed a breakthrough process that literally turns food and clothes packaging into garden compost.
It breaks down into tiny parts that are eaten by bacteria and turned into regular soil. Compare that with ordinary plastic that takes 500 years to biodegrade, and even then will remain in our environment as microscopic particles forever.
“The idea of Tipa was to emulate nature,” says Daphna Nissenbaum, the company’s CEO and Co-founder.
The plastic pollution crisis impacts every living thing on our planet. And with only 9 per cent of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced annually getting recycled, the problem continues to mount. Replacing plastics remains difficult, however, as they are undeniably versatile and convenient, structuring modern life as we know it. This is why Dutch startup Biotic has developed bioplastic flakes or pellets, that it believes could provide an alternative.
Innovation in bioplastics – based on global patent activity – is at its highest point for almost two decades, while investment in plastics recycling technology is accelerating, a new report says.
