Amazon invested a portion of a $2-billion climate fund earlier this month in a company created by a 28-year-old Toronto scientist who turns food scraps into alternative plastics., says she dove into the bioplastics world at 22-years-old. At the time, her budget was dismal and approach was scrappy – but creative, as she put it.
The makeshift gadget she created as a fresh University of Toronto graduate emulated the aim of her company-to-be, Genecis. That bacteria consumes sugars and fatty acids from the organic waste. As it metabolizes, the bacteria converts food scraps into a biodegradable calledFrom there, PHA is extracted, purified and compounded into pellets, which are injected into molding machines to make an alternative to single-use plastics, like food and medical packaging.
Climate fund used to make plastic sounds like real good strategy! While we Canadians are moving away from plastics they creating new ones !!
Save the dinosaurs!!!
They should sell plastic and empty boxes and garbage products to people online. That might make them some money.
Alternative plastics. Great