Bioprocess engineer Jesús E. Rodríguez’s team dreams of replacing all synthetic plastics with biodegradable products.
Jesús E. Rodríguez is a bioprocess engineer at
in Watermans Bay, Australia. Credit: Giacomo d’Orlando forMy team and I make bioplastics from simple renewable ingredients: saltwater microbes, seaweed and seawater. The seaweed provides a carbon source for fermentation, similar to how beer is made by fermenting hops. The saltwater microbes naturally produce polymers called polyhydroxyalkanoates that could replace many, maybe even all, synthetic plastics. And these PHAs are biodegradable, even in cold, dark conditions such as the deep ocean.
aims to replace all synthetic plastics with biopolymers.
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