ingredients can be put through existing moulding machines. the material would struggle with housing hazardous chemicals though, and it s end of life is proving problematic. it can be mechanically or chemically recycled. the problem is that the volumes are so small that it doesn t make any sense that the current plastic recycling infrastructure collects and sorts our material out. so for this to really work it needs to be scaled both to bring the cost down, but also to make sure that these materials are recognised for recycling. the technology is there, though, and hopefully soon when it comes to plastic, we won tjust have to suck it up. spencer: hmm, and lara - assures me that was just water. right, let s turn from packaging now to what is in the packaging. producing food is itself not that green. farming contributes more than 8% of all greenhouse gases.
does have the tough, mouldable qualities needed for cosmetics or food. it s almost impossible to guess that these aren t plastic. it is only close up that you can see its natural origins, and that is wood combine with natural binders and dyes. so our material biodegrades almost exactly the same time period as the same thickness of wood. microbes are able to eat our material and then our material biodegrades into c02, water and biomass. ingredients can be put through existing moulding machines. the material would struggle with housing hazardous chemicals though, and it s end of life is proving problematic. it can be mechanically or chemically recycled. the problem is that the volumes are so small that it doesn t make any sense that the current plastic recycling infrastructure collects and sorts our material out. so for this to really work it needs to be scaled
biodegrades into c02, water and biomass. ingredients can be put through existing moulding machines. the material would struggle with housing hazardous chemicals though, and it s end of life is proving problematic. it can be mechanically or chemically recycled. the problem is that the volumes are so small that it doesn t make any sense that the current plastic recycling infrastructure collects and sorts our material out. so for this to really work it needs to be scaled both to bring the cost down, but also to make sure that these materials are recognised for recycling. the technology is there, though, and hopefully soon when it comes to plastic, we won tjust have to suck it up. spencer: hmm, and lara assures me that was just water. right, let s turn from packaging now to what is in the packaging. producing food is itself not that green. farming contributes more than
it would just take several years to break down instead of thousands of years. i can also feel that the bag is stronger than paper, albeit not quite as strong as plastic. clearly, though, this won t be able to replace all kinds of plastic. but another finnish alternative does have the tough, mouldable qualities needed for cosmetics or food. it s almost impossible to guess that these aren t plastic. it is only close up that you can see its natural origins, and that is wood combine with natural binders and dyes. so our material biodegrades almost exactly the same time period as the same thickness of wood. microbes are able to eat our material and then our material biodegrades into c02, water and biomass. ingredients can be put through existing moulding machines. the material would struggle with housing hazardous chemicals though, and its end of life
through existing moulding machines. the material would struggle with housing hazardous chemicals though, and it s end of life is proving problematic. it can be mechanically or chemically recycled. the problem is that the volumes are so small that it doesn t make any sense that the current plastic recycling infrastructure collects and sorts our material out. so for this to really work it needs to be scaled both to bring the cost down, but also to make sure that these materials are recognised for recycling. the technology is there, though, and hopefully soon when it comes to plastic, we won tjust have to suck it up. spencer: hmm, and lara assures me that wasjust water. right, let s turn from packaging now to what is in the packaging. producing food is itself not that green. farming contributes more than 8% of all greenhouse gases.