Wired has a fascinating article about how to replace our plastic packaging “addiction”. Did you know that we produce more than eight billion tons of plastic –with about 6.3 billion tons of it going into landfills or the ocean? A group of startups is looking for other ways to produce sustainable packaging out of seaweed.
Seaweed is cheap, easy to harvest and extract and is available on every coastline. And, unlike the starch that bioplastics are made from, it doesn't require fresh water or fertilizer to grow.
It is so abundant that just 0.03 percent of the brown seaweed in the world could replace all of the (PET) plastic bottles we go through every year. Seaweed is also a powerful agent to reduce ocean acidity and that will help reduce global warming. It ain't just for sushi anymore!
Pic Credit Billy Clark
Seaweed is cheap, easy to harvest and extract and is available on every coastline. And, unlike the starch that bioplastics are made from, it doesn't require fresh water or fertilizer to grow.
It is so abundant that just 0.03 percent of the brown seaweed in the world could replace all of the (PET) plastic bottles we go through every year. Seaweed is also a powerful agent to reduce ocean acidity and that will help reduce global warming. It ain't just for sushi anymore!
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