Our Consumption and Environmental Dilemma

Plastic has undeniably shaped our modern world with its affordability, ability to protect food, lightweight, waterproof, and myriad other applications and utilities. However, the very material that has brought about unparalleled convenience also brought serious negative impact on the environment: polluting our soil, rivers, ocean, food sources. Eventually entering and poisoning our bodies!.*

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Key Challenges

Plastic requires centuries to fully decompose: Initially fragments into harmful microplastics for a long while, seriously threatening our environment and health before able to be biodegraded by bio-organism.

The problem can only get bigger until we solve it:, Each year, 8 million tons of plastic leak into the ocean * due to human behavior and inadequate waste management. This number is expected to continue growing in line with the global plastic usage growth.
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Using plastic sustainably requires thoughtful and sometimes complex consideration of its full life cycle: the renewability and carbon footprint of material source, its conversion, and its end of life behavior. We cannot solve plastic waste pollution by emitting more carbon, therefore worsening the climate issue.

Less Ego More Eco is needed; No single “R” or solution is adequate to solve this. Local context and holistic approach matter in creating technically and economically viable as well as scalable solutions. Collaboration is critical.

Our Dream for the (Near) Future

We imagine a flourishing world and prosperous people without harmful plastics. Where Consumers are thoughtful in their consumption, voting with their wallet and behavior on sustainable products and packaging. Where Innovative Sustainable Materials that meet the functionalities of plastic while having none of the negative impact are used by the most loved and progressive Brands. Where Circularity happens in a truly economically viable way instead of conveniently exporting the negative impact elsewhere. Nature and people live harmoniously for generations to come.

Commonly Used Approach is Far from Enough, Each Still Has Huge Homework

Reduce

Benefit: Using fewer items and more readily biodegrade materials like paper can reduce plastic waste pollution.

Limitations: Some items need plastic-like functionalities such as waterproof, good oxygen barrier (prolong food life). We also need to avoid cutting more trees (for paper) to mitigate climate impact.

Reuse

Benefit: Reusing, refilling, and/or reconstituting the items for different functions can reduce virgin plastic usage.

Limitations: Many items need to be hygienic therefore not suitable for Reuse. The infrastructure, carbon footprint, water, energy required to recollect, wash, reuse, can be prohibitive.

Recycle

Benefit: Recycling the plastic waste into recycled resins to be made into other products can reduce waste and virgin plastic.

Limitations: Plastic items that are too small, contaminated, flexible films, multi-layer, etc. often are not economically viable for recycling. Massive water usage during the process produce and leak microplastics if not treated properly.

Return to Earth is the critical missing piece, that offers Biodegradable and Bio-based solutions to solve both plastic waste pollution and climate crises:

Biodegradable End-of-life: Reduce the accumulation of plastic in landfills (and if accidentally leak to nature). Safely speed up the material's bio-assimilation by nature.
Bio-based Source: Renewable, locally-sourced to shift reliance on fossil fuels, reducing carbon footprint.

The Return to Earth material solutions is suitable for replacing plastic items that are too small and contaminated, neither suitable for reuse nor economically viable for recycling. For those real unsalvageable "plastic waste". For post-consumer items that are net negative in terms of energy, water, time, money, to try and save.

Our Biodegradable and Bio-based Materials Have Achieved Scaled Impact
Towards a Net-zero Future and Net-zero Waste

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