Zhang-Genecis VIPI Food Waste-Derived PHA Monitoring and Quantification

GeneCIS是一家早期的有机垃圾处理公司，将餐厅餐厨垃圾转化为PHA(聚羟基烷酸酯)**可生物降解的塑料颗粒和肥料。PHA是一种高质量的可生物降解塑料，可以用来取代**一些传统塑料，如聚乙烯和聚丙烯。**每年，提供全方位服务的大型餐厅丢弃大量食物，平均每年仅为将其倾倒到**垃圾填埋场就支付15,000美元。GeneCIS为餐厅提供可持续的有机垃圾管理解决方案，这也为他们节省了当前**有机处理成本。**每周，一家签约的卡车运输公司从餐厅收集有机垃圾，并将其带回我们的中央**设施，在那里我们将有机垃圾转化为更高价值的产品。目前，我们正在加州大学斯卡伯勒校区将实验室规模扩大到**60L连续生物反应器。**每产生30吨有机废物，我们将能够创造1吨PHA可生物降解塑料和5-10吨肥料。

Genecis is an early-stage, organic waste processing company that turns restaurant food waste into PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates)**biodegradable plastic pellets and fertilizer. PHAs are a type of high quality, biodegradable plastics which can be used to replace a**number of conventional plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene.**Each year, large, full-service restaurants throw away a lot of food, and pay an average of $15,000 per year just to dump it into**landfills. Genecis offers restaurants a sustainable organic waste management solution, that also saves them money on current**organic disposal costs.**Every week, a contracted trucking company collects the organic waste from the restaurants and brings it back to our centralized**facility, where we convert the organic waste into products of higher value. Currently, we are scaling up from a laboratory scale to**60L continuous bioreactors at the UofT Scarborough Campus.**For every 30 tons of organic waste, we will be able to create 1 ton of PHA biodegradable plastics, and 5-10 tons of fertilizer.