Plastic from Algae
I hear that a French company, Alternative Plastics, has won the 2021 Carrefour Innovation Prize with their Alg&Bag garbage bag range. The bags are made in France with Eranova’s bio-polymer made from green algae collected from beaches. Green algae is an environmental nuisance which pollutes beaches. It is not only an eyesore, but the build-up can be toxic, causing beaches to be closed.
For those who like bioplastics, this is a much better way to make them than by using scarce land and water resources which should be used to grow food. The bags have been designed to be fully recyclable with the existing waste stream of fossil-based polymers, so will not disrupt the recycling process.
Symphony Environmental Technologies plc (LON:SYM) is a world leader in the development of additives to make ordinary plastic biodegradable and protective technologies to enhance plastic products.