Recently I read an article from Fortune which is quite interesting. There is a big trash of plastic garbage floating on the coast of California.Only 7% of the plastic the Americans consume are recycled and the remaining plastics are thrown into rivers ,lakes and oceans where the fishes consume the toxin present in plastic and produce dangerous effects to humans.
Mr Richard Eno,the CEO of Metabolix which is a small public company has brought a solution to this problem.His idea of making plastic out of plants is appreciable.Till now no one has made a 100% bioplastic that is durable and biodegradable.
Metabolix has genetically engineered a microbe that eats sugar from corn and generates a plastic like molecule called PHA.This plastic is decomposable in water or soil.
As Bioplastics grow in popularity, there would be natural demand for corn and the price of corn rises naturally.So it seems Metabolix are also working on next generation plastics made from non food materials such as switch grass which grows on the prairie.
If everything goes out well the great Pacific Garbage patch will start vanishing.
Mr Richard Eno,the CEO of Metabolix which is a small public company has brought a solution to this problem.His idea of making plastic out of plants is appreciable.Till now no one has made a 100% bioplastic that is durable and biodegradable.
Metabolix has genetically engineered a microbe that eats sugar from corn and generates a plastic like molecule called PHA.This plastic is decomposable in water or soil.
As Bioplastics grow in popularity, there would be natural demand for corn and the price of corn rises naturally.So it seems Metabolix are also working on next generation plastics made from non food materials such as switch grass which grows on the prairie.
If everything goes out well the great Pacific Garbage patch will start vanishing.
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