Carbios, a chemistry company specializing in technologies dedicated to recovering plastic waste and producing bio-polymers, has reported that it has successfully managed to depolymerize 90 percent of the polylactic acid (PLA) material in 48 hours through the use of its enzymatic process.
The company, based in France, says the results of the tests were obtained by the team from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Toulouse, France, and the Systems Biology and Process Engineering Laboratory (LISBP), both partners with Carbios on the Thanaplast project. They have prompted Carbios to continue successfully developing its depolymerization process of polyesters, including PLA plastic wastes.
Carbios says the results of the test will enable the company to expand its technology to other plastic polymers, including PET and PTT, a plastics grade that is used in a significant amount of carpeting.
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