Israeli startup develops a fully compostable alternative An Israeli startup has developed a breakthrough process that literally turns food and clothes packaging into garden compost. It breaks down into tiny parts that are eaten by bacteria and turned into regular soil. Compare that with ordinary plastic that takes 500 years to biodegrade, and even then will remain in our environment as microscopic particles forever.
“The idea of Tipa was to emulate nature,” says Daphna Nissenbaum, the company’s CEO and Co-founder.
“Nature also packs its products, like bananas, apples, and oranges, but with compostable material. Our plastics will disintegrate and biodegrade exactly like any other organic material, and turn into a solid fertilizer.”
“Plastic is piling up, even if we don’t see it. Every piece of plastic that was ever manufactured is still someplace around us. And although we think we treat plastic, it stays here.”
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