Up-cycling industrial waste to produce home-compostable biocomposites for sustainable cosmetic pots

SymbioTex是一家由Olivia Simpson（B.Sc.）领导的创新生物材料公司，旨在开发最先进的生物基解决方案，以取代一次性塑料、不可回收的塑料-生物材料共混物和工业可堆肥材料。SymbioTex基于海藻的解决方案（超过75%的海藻）旨在取代化妆品行业的一次性包装，全球化妆品行业每年的销量超过1200亿件;其中大部分实际上无法回收。预计到2030年化妆品市场将产生5605亿美元的收入，包装问题势必会变得更糟。SymbioTex致力于开发和商业化真正可持续的解决方案，以解决我们社会面临的问题。该项目旨在探索和进一步评估新型海藻基生物复合材料，为污染严重的化妆品行业提供碳中和/负可持续的替代品。单一塑料可回收解决方案的缺乏表明，需要完全家庭可堆肥的替代品来满足目前减少塑料包装的努力。SymbioTex与苏格兰海藻化妆品公司Ishga合作，评估用于化妆品包装的专利材料的技术和美学特性。该项目旨在推动当前生物基解决方案的技术界限，并满足消费者对试用化妆品包装的要求。化妆品行业的回收率为9%，因此迫切需要可持续的解决方案。取决于食用油和海藻供应商，目前的解决方案可能还不是净负面的，但是，如果实现了废油的本地收集和海藻的生产，净负面的目标是可以实现的。

SymbioTex, an innovative biomaterials company led by Olivia Simpson (B.Sc.), aims to develop cutting edge biobased solutions to replace single use plastics, non-recyclable plastic-co-biomaterial blends and industrially compostable materials. SymbioTex's seaweed-based solution (more than 75% seaweed) aims to displace single use packaging in the cosmetics sector, which accounts for more than 120 billion units every year globally; most of which are not actually recyclable.With the cosmetic market projected to generate US$ 560.5 billion by 2030, the packaging issues are bound to get worse. SymbioTex aims to develop and commercialise truly sustainable solutions to the issues faced by our society. This project aims to explore and further assess novel seaweed based biocomposites to provide carbon neutral/negative\* sustainable alternatives towards the heavily polluting cosmetics industry. The lack of monoplastic recyclable solutions suggests that fully home compostable alternatives are needed to satisfy current efforts in mitigating plastic packaging. By creating a seaweed-based thermoplastic-like material which can be scaled up to rapidly meet the demands of the cosmetic industry and beyond.SymbioTex has teamed up with Ishga, a Scottish based seaweed cosmetic company to evaluate both the technical and aesthetic properties of the patented material for cosmetic packaging.This project aims to push the technical boundaries of current biobased solutions and fulfil consumer requirements to pilot cosmetic packaging, the cosmetic industry has a 9% recycling rate, and thus is in desperate need of sustainable solutions.\*Depending on cooking oil and seaweed suppliers, the current solution might not be net negative yet, however if local collection of waste oils and production of seaweed is achieved; net-negative goals can be met.