Notpla Pearls: A seaweed based alternative to plastic packaging in the cosmetics industry.

全球每年的塑料消费量已从20世纪50年代的500万吨增加到今天的近1亿吨。据估计，英国每年产生500万吨塑料垃圾，每个家庭超过40公斤。十家连锁超市负责每年向市场投放超过80万吨一次性塑料。此外，还有11亿多个一次性袋子，9.58亿个生活袋和12亿个水果蔬菜生产袋。随着Notpla珍珠的开发，我们的目标是生产世界上第一个化妆品行业内100%天然的、可生物降解的塑料包装替代产品。我们开发了我们独特的消费产品Ooho，这是一种从海藻提取物中提取的专利天然膜包装，用于液体、酱油和凝胶香包的一次性包装。基于这项技术，我们随后开发了Notpla，一系列适用于多种应用和行业的无塑料薄膜包装原型。在实验室验证了这一概念后，我们现在需要改进其组成，升级和自动化这项技术，以证明其可行性，以便它可以用于工业应用，并在减少塑料使用、浪费和采用可持续技术方面产生重大影响。

The world's annual consumption of plastics has increased from 5 million tonnes in the 1950s to nearly 100 million tonnes today. The UK generates an estimated 5 million tonnes of plastic waste per annum, more than 40kg per household. Ten supermarket chains are responsible for placing over 800,000 tonnes of single-use plastics on the market every year. This is in addition to over 1.1 billion single-use bags, 958 million bags for life and 1.2 billion produce bags for fruit and vegetables. With the development of the Notpla Pearl, we aim to produce the world's first 100% natural, biodegradable plastic-wrap replacement product within the cosmetics industry.We have achieved considerable success developing our unique consumer product, Ooho, a patented natural membrane packaging derived from seaweed extract and used in single use packaging for liquids, sauces, and gel sachets.Based upon this technology we have subsequently developed Notpla, a range of prototype plastic-free film packaging suitable for multiple applications and industries. Having validated the concept in the lab, we now need to refine its composition, upscale and automate the technology, demonstrating its viability, so that is can be used in industrial applications and make a significant impact in terms of reducing plastic usage, waste and the adoption of sustainable technologies.