A Dutch company wants to tackle the scourge of plastic bottles by jumping into herbal production. And if beer and soft drinks were soon orphaned in the bottle
A Dutch company wants to tackle the scourge of plastic bottles by jumping into herbal production.
And if beer and soft drinks are soon orphaned in bottles of “100%” plants? In any case, it is about a bet of a biochemical company with the Netherlands, which intends to produce bottles from vegetable sugars, reports The Guardian.
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The project, conceived by the renewable chemicals company Avantium, has already received support from the Carlsberg brewery, which hopes to sell its beer in a cardboard container covered with an inner layer of plastic.
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Plastic that can be recycled and decomposed
other industry giants like Coca-Cola and Danone hope to also future-proof their bottled products as they tackle the environmental damage caused by plastic pollution. Because currently 300 million tons of plastic are produced from fossil fuels every year in the world. Products that are mostly not recycled and contribute to the scourge of microplastics in the world’s oceans and can take hundreds of years to fully degrade.
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“A plastic factory does not use fossil fuels and can be recycled (…) It would degrade much faster than normal plastic,” says Tom Van Aken, CEO of Avantium. Namely, tests have shown that the plastic plant will fail in a year if a composter is used, and in a few more years if it is left in normal outdoor conditions. “But ideally it would be recycled,” the director continued.
The biorefinery plans to break down the sustainable chemical structures of plant sugars which could then form new plastics made from plants. A project that could flourish on supermarket shelves by 2023.
Updated date: May 21, 2020, 3:34 p.m
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn