Genecis is a start-up that turns food waste into a bio-plastic called PHA
LUNA YU: Every year more than one trillion dollars-worth of food is wasted across the globe.
By using advancements in technology, and microbial engineering
we can take this food waste, originally destined for a landfill and turn it into something of higher value.
PHAs have many benefits over other forms of bio-plastics
They can be moulded and remoulded
Are fully biodegradable
And won’t ruin the recycling stream
Hasitha de Alwis: Converting food waste into useful materials is very beneficial
because approximately 20 per cent of methane emission comes from landfills
and it’s a very big environmental concern.
So, in all this process what we do is we
convert this landfill organic waste into
alternatives for conventional plastics like PHAs.
And these PHAs are biodegradable, compostable and non-toxic
and they actually serve as food sources for micro-organisms and fish.
They’re also developing other materials from organic waste
For products that can be used in cosmetics
and in the health and wellness industry
