The End Of Plastic? New Plant-Based Bottles Degrade In 1 Year

A biochemicals organization in the Netherlands would like to launch interest in a spearheading venture that intends to create plastics made 100% from plant-based materials.

The initiative, devised by renewable chemicals company Avantium, has already won the support of Carlsberg and Coca-Cola.

Avantium’s CEO, Tom van Aken, says he would like to announce a significant interest on the planet driving bioplastics plant in the Netherlands before the year’s over. The venture, which stays on target notwithstanding the coronavirus lockdown, is set to uncover organizations with other food and drink organizations later in the mid year.

“This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels, and can be recycled – but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do,” says Van Aken.

Trials have shown that the plant plastic would decompose in one year using a composter, and a few years longer if left in normal outdoor conditions. But ideally, it should be recycled, said Van Aken.

Americans right now discard 35 billion plastic containers consistently. Just about 25% of the plastic delivered in the U.S. is reused. That prompts a major issue given the way that water bottles don’t biodegrade, yet rather photodegrade.

This means that it takes at least up to 1,000 years for every single bottle to decompose.

Avantium’s plant-based plastic bottles are on pace to appear on supermarket shelves by 2023.

Credit: TheGuardian

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