Good News Notes: “Toraphene aims to tackle the climate crisis by making plastic packaging and single-use plastics obsolete. The company has developed the world’s first commercially viable, truly biodegradable, and compostable alternative to conventional plastic packaging, which breaks down naturally, without human involvement – even in the ocean. Toraphene consists of naturally occurring compostable biopolymers…
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This Startup Is Making Fully Edible ‘Plastic’ Sauce Packets Out of Seaweed
Good News Notes: “From a pile of seaweed to a packet of soy sauce. The London startup Notpla has created a plastic alternative from seaweed that’s biodegradable – and even edible. And it’s hoping it could put a dent in the 300 million tons of plastic waste humans generate each year. Notpla’s natural plastic-like casing is biodegradable within four…