Bioplastic Daily Briefing

Wisconsin Bioplastic Daily Briefing

Metabolix recently announced that Bioverse, a developer of natural products, contracted to purchase Mirel™ bioplastic resin for a ball that you put into small ponds to help clean up the water.  The product, AquaSphere PRO, is a bioremediation system, and will undergo an upgrade to a bioplastic shell.  The previous shell is recycled plastic, and is still being offered.  The biosphere is submerged underwater, and you forget about it.  As I understand it, the shell biodegrades in tempo with the life cycle of the water treatment system. 

According to the press release Bioverse is the first customer announcement for the marine and fresh water market, and is one of six targeted markets for the bioplastic resin marketed by Telles, the jv formed by Metabolix and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to commercialize the bioplastic resin. 

What are some of the other possible markets that a marine grade biodegradable plastic could be utilized in?  If you haven’t noticed Wisconsin has a lot of lakes. 

I have to challenge myself, you know, because I’m the president of the PPBA (Professional Pontoon Boaters Association) to see where a bioplastic product could be used on the pontoon?  Got it, we need new cup holders.  The old ones fell apart, and were mounted poorly.  No, they did not fall in the water.  They went in the trash though. Maybe the next ones could compost?  Will try to find some, and fill you in as the search progresses.