PHA: Developing Practical Biodegradable Single-Use Plastics

Consumers want to live more sustainable lives including reducing the impact of plastic items that they use on the environment. Danimer’s Nodax PHA materials can be used to make practical single use plastic items with end-of-life characteristics that can be tailored to fit designed or accidental disposal systems. The product technology highlighted today is profile extrusion to produce marine biodegradable drinking straws. The rapid development of a material that performs and has been commercialized will be described