Team members
Karen Cheah
Founder & CEO
Herbin Chia
CFO
Julie Lee
Project Manager
Nur Aina Farhana
Research Engineer
Dr Henry Leung
Research Director, NYP
Plastic Pollution Challenge
Combating a global problem of plastic pollution through local solutions. 60% of global ocean plastics originate from Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. These same countries, are also home to 25% of the world’s brewers’ spent grains, a by-product in food manufacturing. Alterpacks is able to take this raw material that is currently being used as animal feed, fertilizer or discarded in landfills, to replace one-third of the household plastic packaging needs in these same Countries.
Using by-products from food manufacturing and agricultural waste to create a new material that replaces plastic packaging.
Solution
Valorisation of food and agricultural waste to create bio-resins that can be used in standard plastic manufacturing machines to replace petroleum based resins and create food containers. The current raw material is brewers’ spent grains – malt and cereals thrown out in beer brewing, milo and cereal production. This raw material may be replaced with agricultural waste such as coconut husks. Alterpacks have developed an energy saving method that requires low heat and existing machines to create the pellets at scale. The material is biodegradable and home compostable. This is important as plastic waste is often dumped in open ground, landfills or ends up as ocean plastic.
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