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CuanTec
CuanTec is a blue biotechnology company creating a circular economy where waste from processing of the fisheries industry is turned into biodegradable packaging.
Every year, 8.8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the sea; a third of it has been used only once. A garbage patch of 3.5m sq km made of plastic is floating in the pacific. An uninhabited island has been found covered in plastic brought by the ocean.
Those are examples of what our plastic consumption does to the planet. This is why we began our journey to the new generation of bio-plastic food packaging.
Cuantec is extracting biologically a naturally occurring biopolymer, chitin from fish processing waste, then, deacetylate it to obtain chitosan (for more information on the process, go the page Science).
We then mix this chitosan with other biopolymers and natural substances to create a flexible anti-microbial and compostable bioplastic film, to be used as food packaging, reducing plastic pollution ending up in landfill and in nature, furthermore its anti-microbial characteristic will extend the shelf life of fresh food.
