With more and more focus on making green and bio-degradable plastics, Carbios has settled with an achievement which is capable of depolymerizing PLA or polylactic acid by 90% through enzymatic process, in a period of just 48 hours. This can be considered as a huge milestone for the company as it was interested in reducing the global plastic waste and other toxic substances.
As mentioned in http://recyclingportal.eu/Archive/9007, this process of depolymerization has been achieved through using a catalytic enzymatic process which was successfully tested on common PLA wastes like plastic films, trays, flatware and cups as they were very resistant to enzymes because of semi-crystalline properties. With this achievement, Carbios is ready to scale-up the production and give some speed to its signature bio-recycling process.
Experts from LISBP and INRA involved in Thanaplast Project have revealed these results that are partners to Carbios and are supporting this very green chemistry company in the genuine objective of recovering the plastic wastes along with innovative production of biodegradable plastics.
It should be noted here that PLA has been considered as a bio-degradable alternative to traditional PET or polyethene terephthalate for mass level production of different kinds of packaging products. Here, PLA is best for 3D printing techniques and medical implants/transplants due to extreme bio-compatibility. Because of depolymerization technique discovered by Carbios for PLA, it can be readily applied to other plastic forms like PTT and PET for recovery of plastic waste as detailed by http://recyclingportal.eu/Archive/9007.
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