Bioplastic from waste oil: Bi-ion creates new biodegradable polymer from frying oil

    Awarded in Piazza Affari, Bio-on announced a technological innovation to obtain plastic from frying oil.

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    Bioplastic from waste oil. To develop it the Bi-on laboratories that have created a new polymer from the scraps of the frying oil. One more reason to differentiate it correctly.





    It is now known that the oils already used are not to be considered a waste to be thrown away but precious raw materials to create - also - bioplastics and biofuels that are 100% compatible with the environment. This is a process that makes it possible to reuse a product that would otherwise be highly polluting.

    Not everyone knows, alas, that used oil, which has therefore undergone chemical-physical transformations, is in fact a dangerous waste. If disposed of incorrectly or if poured into the ground, it penetrates the soil poisoning the aquifer that provides drinking water and that useful for irrigating crops. If it is dispersed in water, it is able to form an impermeable film that leads to the death, due to lack of oxygen, of what lives below it. If burned, that oil introduces pollutants into the atmosphere that can cause poisoning and disease.

    In short, used oil is not thrown at random but it must necessarily be disposed of correctly and it is not that difficult!

    Also because recycling used oil has great economic advantages: with the treatment and recycling processes, high quality products are obtained such as vegetable lubricants for agricultural machinery, methyl ester for biodiesel, glycerin for soap, fuel for energy recovery for energy recovery. and also eco-friendly automotive lubricants. And not only that: and if from the oil that is no longer used it was also obtained eco-sustainable plastic material?

    At the Bio-on laboratories, for example, bioplastic is born from the used frying oil. The Bolognese company, awarded in Piazza Affari in the Aim segment dedicated to small companies, has in fact announced a technological innovation to obtain plastic from frying oil.


    It will be possible to use used frying oil to produce Minerv PHAs, a biopolymer from Bio-On, 100% natural and biodegradable. The used oil will thus be added to the "raw materials" already used to produce the bioplastic, such as beet and sugar cane molasses, fruit and potato waste, carbohydrates in general and glycerol.


    Bioplastic from waste oil: Bi-ion creates new biodegradable polymer from frying oil

    "This important innovation is the result of two years of research and allows us to draw on the enormous quantities of this waste product - explains Marco Astorri, President and CEO of Bio-on - especially in markets such as North America and Asia, where the consumption of fried foods is high and the quantity of used oil exceeds, according to our estimate, one billion liters per day. A waste product, which must be disposed of at high environmental costs, becomes for us a "raw material" with which to feed the bacteria that produce PHAs bioplastic according to a completely natural process ".

    The used oil is added to the "raw materials" already used to produce the Bio-on bioplastic, but for the first time the carbon source that feeds the production process of the biopolymer is of a lipidic nature. Thanks to a system of preventive treatment of used frying oil, the bioplastic produced has the same characteristics as that generated starting from other waste or by agro-industrial products.

    The difference? Is that it is a completely eco-sustainable and 100% naturally biodegradable plastic.

    Our task is therefore to dispose of the used oil. Don't know how to do it? Here is explained where to throw the frying oil without frying the environment.


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