Carbios Produces First Clear Plastic Bottles From Enzymatically Recycled Textile Waste
November 19 2020 - 12:45AM
Business Wire
The company’s latest recycling milestone brings new value to
an otherwise waste-destined 42 million tons of polyester textiles
produced annually1
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CARBIOS (Paris:ALCRB) (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a company
pioneering new enzymatic solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of
plastic and textile polymers, today announced it has successfully
produced the first bottles containing 100% recycled Purified
Terephthalic Acid (rPTA) from textile waste that contains a
high PET content. This result confirms the capacity of Carbios’
technology to recycle textile waste and opens up access to an
additional waste stream of up to 42 million tons per year, worth
over $ 40 billion.
“I am very proud that we successfully transformed polyester
textile waste into clear bottles, which have identical properties
as those made from virgin PET. This major innovation allows us to
expand our sources of supply which, until now, consisted primarily
of PET plastic waste," said Professor Alain Marty, Chief Scientific
Officer of Carbios.
Currently, mechanical recycling technologies do not enable
clothing waste to be recycled efficiently. The few textiles
that can be reused, are incorporated into lower quality
applications such as padding, insulators or rags. This process is
called "downcycling".
In contrast, the breakthrough developed by Carbios enables
polyester textile fibers to be “upcycled” in a high quality grade
of PET suitable for the production of clear bottles.
"This result demonstrates the extent of our technology’s
possibilities: We can now produce transparent bottles from
polyester textile waste or from post-consumer colored bottles. This
works both ways – so we can also make a t-shirt from bottles or
disposable food trays," said Professor Marty. Indeed, Carbios has
succeeded in producing PET fibers for textile applications
with 100% rPTA, from enzymatically recycled PET plastic
waste.
These major outcomes were achieved as part of the CE-PET
(Circular Economy PET) research project, of which Carbios is the
lead alongside its partner TWB (Toulouse White Biotechnology). This
project was financed by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy
Management Agency)2.
Carbios’ process enables low-value waste to be recovered and to
have a new life in more challenging applications – in short, it
facilitates infinite recycling of PET-based plastics and textiles.
This innovative enzymatic waste recycling technology is fully in
line with European objectives of creating a circular economy and
strengthening environmental protection.
About Carbios:
Carbios, a green chemistry company, develops biological and
innovative processes to revolutionize the end of life of plastics
and textiles. Through its unique approach of combining enzymes and
plastics, Carbios aims to address new consumer expectations and the
challenges of a broader energy transition by taking up a major
challenge of our time: plastic and textile pollution.
Established in 2011 by Truffle Capital, the mission of Carbios
is to provide an industrial solution to the recycling of PET
plastics and textiles (the dominant polymer in bottles, trays,
textiles made of polyester). The enzymatic recycling technology
developed by Carbios deconstructs any type of PET plastic waste
into its basic components which can then be reused to produce new
PET plastics of a quality equivalent to virgin ones. This PET
innovation, the first of its kind in the world, was recently
recognized in a scientific paper published in the prestigious
journal Nature. Additionally, Carbios is working hand in hand with
multinational brands — like L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and
Suntory Beverage & Food Europe — to implement its technology,
and to lead the transition toward a truly circular economy.
The Company has also developed an enzymatic biodegradation
technology for PLA (a bio sourced polymer) based single use
plastics. This technology can create a new generation of plastics
that are 100% compostable in domestic conditions, integrating
enzymes at the heart of the plastic product. This disruptive
innovation has been licensed to Carbiolice, a joint venture created
in 2016, in which Carbios now holds a majority stake alongside the
SPI fund operated by Bpifrance.
For more information, please visit https://carbios.fr/en/
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Carbios (ISIN FR0011648716/ALCRB) is eligible for the PEA-PME, a
government program allowing French residents investing in SMEs to
benefit from income tax rebates.
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1 Source: HIS Markit 2018
2 Project carried out under the Future Investment Program (PIA n
° 1882C0098). The innovations announced were carried out as part of
the validation of the second key stage of the project. As such,
Carbios received in the first half of 2020 a total amount of one
(1) million euros.
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