Economic Bioplastic to Finally beat Petrochemical Plastic.
At Sustainable Chemicals™, we are bringing novel bioplastics materials to market that will revolutionize how bioplastics are adopted and used. Our ambitious goal is backed by economics and superior performance, existing bioplastics can’t match, and will enable us to bring sustainable bioplastics to producers and consumers in the plastics industry.
OUR MISSION IS TO SOLVE THE PLASTIC PROBLEM
″Bioplastics have been around for decades, but the technology remains limited to niche applications because they have inferior properties and are more expensive than traditional plastics. The only way to achieve meaningful environmental change is to design a bioplastic that is cost and performance competitive with petroleum-based plastics. That is why I founded Sustainable Chemicals™.″
– Silvia Luebben, Sust-Chem CEO and Founder
Novel BioPlastics
We have novel bioplastics platform made from raw material obtained from biomass. This reduces the carbon footprint of our product by 45% compared to petrochemical plastics.
BioDegradation
If dispersed in the environment, Sust-Chem’s bioplastics degrade into benign molecules that can be used by nature as building blocks.
If collected, our biopolymers can be chemically recycled.
Cost-competitive
Petrochemical plastics are ubiquitous because they are convenient and cheap. Our chemistry does not require fermentation compared to other bioplastics, which allows us to scale economically and become cost-competitive with the petrochemical plastics.
Actual Plastic Properties
Existing bioplastic products do not have a plastic look, feel, or application. Our bioplastics are designed to have properties that match conventional petrochemical plastics to provide diverse product applications.
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
We are drowning in plastic pollution.
- By the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish .
- Non-biodegradable plastics breakdown into smaller fragments, called microplastics, which enter our drinking water and food supply. Each person consumes about half a pound of microplastics per year.
- Plastic manufacture and incineration accounts for 13% of global carbon dioxide emissions, a leading cause of global warming.
- Only 9% of plastic is actually recycled.
- Current alternatives to conventional polymers have made great technological advances, however their used is limited to niche applications because their cost is higher and their performance in inferior to that of conventional fossil fuel based plastics.
OUR DUTY
Bring to market a family of sustainable bioplastics that compete with petrochemical plastics in price and performance.
BIODEGRADABLE
Our material has a benign end of life whether it is recycled, up-cycled or lost to the environment.
RENEWABLE
The monomer is sourced from biomass which allows us to reduce the carbon footprint of our plastics by 45%.
NONPERSISTANT
Our plastic breaks down into benign materials if improperly disposed.
NONTOXIC
The monomer is present in soy sauce and has a natural metabolic pathway.
PROPERTIES
Mechanical properties of our biopolymer match conventional plastics.