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

世界塑料的年消费量从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，每户超过40公斤。十家连锁超市每年在市场上投放的一次性塑料超过80万吨。除此之外，还有超过11亿个一次性塑料袋，9.58亿个生活袋和12亿个水果和蔬菜生产袋。随着Notpla珍珠的开发，我们的目标是在化妆品行业生产世界上第一个100%天然，可生物降解的塑料包装替代产品。我们在开发独特的消费产品Ooho方面取得了相当大的成功，Ooho是一种从海藻提取物中提取的专利天然膜包装，用于一次性包装液体，酱汁和凝胶袋。基于这项技术，我们随后开发了Notpla，这是一系列适用于多种应用和行业的原型无塑料薄膜包装。在实验室验证了这个概念之后，我们现在需要改进它的成分，使技术高端化和自动化，证明它的可行性，这样它就可以在工业应用中使用，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.