Origin’s Biomaterials Alchemy: Umwandlung von Holzspänen in echten Kunststoff
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2024/12/05/origins-biomaterials-alchemy-converting-wood-chips-into-real-plastic/
Origin’s Biomaterials Alchemy: Umwandlung von Holzspänen in echten Kunststoff
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2024/12/05/origins-biomaterials-alchemy-converting-wood-chips-into-real-plastic/
1 Kommentar
From the article:
1) Origin Materials (ORGN) has developed a truly revolutionary insight into this hot topic: its scientists have found a way to produce common plastics and other materials using a feedstock of biomaterials like wood chips, cardboard, and sawdust.
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2) Origin’s management realized that its research into the chemistry of PET enabled it to do something no other firm had been able to do at commercial scale: produce bottle caps made out of PET (OP: better monomaterial recycling with current PET-bottles as most are with HDPE-caps).
OP comment:
Frankly, at first glance producing more plastic materials that are not biodegradable does not seem ideal. We all know how much plastic ends up in our environment. But we still make them and not all plastic products are single-use and require materials that are not biodegradable.
We simultanously have the need to improve current recyclability of materials and also reduce the use of fossil fuels when producing new materials. I don’t think it removes the need for non-plastic options but is complementary.
TLDR: Plastic is bad (ends up in the environment + microplastics) but as long as we use them, we shouldn’t make them out of fossil fuels?