“Our focus is to make environmentally safe and highly functional biobased materials available globally,” RWDC CEO Dr. Daniel Carraway said in a press statement. “Our partnership with Lummus is a significant step toward enabling PHA to assist our customers—and, therefore, consumers—in meeting the global challenge of plastics pollution.”
RWDC uses plant-based oils, including post-consumer or waste cooking oils, to produce Solon™ PHA, which can be organically recycled or composted in home and industrial composting facilities. Products or packaging made with PHA that find their way into the environment, therefore, will fully biodegrade in soil, fresh water, and marine settings, preventing persistent plastics and microplastics from accumulating in the environment. Articles produced with PHA also can be recycled, re-used or returned to the carbon cycle by way of organic recycling or composting systems.