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The circle of it: This company utilizes food waste streams, especially from beer brewing, to create a compostable plastic alternative.
outlander materials
Summary
Outlander materials has created biotechnology to make compostable plastic alternatives by products of beer making. The company’s innovative material “UnPlastic” is made from food by-products and waste that never break down into micro- or nanoplastics. The material is semi-transparent, odorless and the company claims that it can even extend the shelf-life of products because the material is strong enough to hold a barrier to fats, oils and oxygen. (Source) The company intends to tackle the plastic packaging industry that is responsible for 40% of the plastic use. (Source) The company partners Vet & Lazy Brouwerij, a circular brewery that redistributes their brewing waste as cattle feed to farms and as raw material to Outlander materials. (Source)
Story
Founder Lori Goff already had had extensive experience with circular systems, using her biotechnology degree to help circular businesses with their scientific process. The idea behind Outlander materials and Unplastic came after Lori decided to brew her own beer in her kitchen and realizing how much waste was produced in the beer brewing process. Experimenting with this waste, Lori conceived and developed UnPlastic and founded Outlander Materials.
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” Amazing and nearly indestructible materials like plastic should be used in long-term and high-impact spaces, like cars, planes, furniture even, rather than on a wrapper for a cookie that will be gone in a few seconds. Wiping out the Amazon forest to grow sugar cane for plastics doesn’t make as much sense as using nutrient-dense waste & low-value side streams already widely available.”
Lori Goff in an interview
Founder(s)
Lori Goff
Headquarters
Rotterdam, Netherlands
In business since
2019
Business type
for profit
Impact
Technology
developing a compostable plastic alternative from beer waste and other food by products
Material
beer waste
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