Based in California, Mango Materials has come up with a new way to make PHA from waste methane gas via methane-eating bacteria, and they are advancing the process toward commercialization. Today, Mango Materials can produce methane-based biodegradable plastics from waste biogas (methane) that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics.
The current goal is to scale-up production to ten million pounds of biodegradable plastic, which requires a staggering half billion cubic feet of methane: Gas that would otherwise be trapping heat in the atmosphere and warming up our planet.
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