Healthcare is worrying in single-use plastic. In the United States alone healthcare facilities, More than 2,5 tons Plastic packaging and products are dropped daily.
Less people are more aware of this than AD Yu. In the early part of the epidemic, the UU founded a company that created disposable masks. One day, he was with him while recycling his nephew and he asked him if his mask was recyclable.
“I told him that we could not actually recycled the mask,” he told TechCrunch. “He simply interrupted me and said, ‘Oh, then you make a lot of garbage every day.’
The little girl’s words were stuck with you and after selling the mask company in 2021, she traveled to correct.
In an attempt to reduce the plastic problem of Healthcare’s single use, the new Ucospix has developed a new bio-based, biodgradable polymer. Okrosix startup is part of the battlefield, and it will be disrupted by TechCrunch late this month in San Francisco.
Okrosix mixes various compounds, including cellulose, crustysian shells, wax and a owned element. U says, cheaper than polyilactic acid (PLA), a widely used biodegradable plastic, with effectiveness “is the same or better than the PLA,” U says.
In plastic, the term “biodegradability” is often abused, U says. Some need to be decomposed to someone, while others are only separated in micro- or nanoplastics.
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U says, “We have received international certificate to prove that the material is fully gone within six months,” U said.
Okrosix starts with a mouth mask, but it plans to create surgical gowns, diapers and sanitary napkins, U says. “We would like to use non-plastic, a safe ingredient for replacement of fossil plastic for disposable products.”
Although the company has not yet been able to analyze a formal life cycle, the UU says that the ingredients of Okrosix should have a carbon footprint that is 90% lower than the widely used single -use plastic polypropylene.
Okrosix sells its material to the third party, which later turns it into different products. “At the moment, our business model is like Gore-Tex,” you said. “We do not make finished products, but we make the layer, we make raw materials and then we work with companies like 3M” “He added that the branding can become an important part of business like Gore-Tex.
Startup has collected $ 2.3 million with investors in investors and other Angel investors.
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