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Bio-on Confident In Natural, Biodegradable PHA Prospects As EU Takes Aim At Plastics

 
• By Lauren Nardella

The Italian firm’s polyhydroxyalkanoate microspheres are naturally derived, high-performing and 100% biodegradable in water in less than two weeks, it says. Consultancy Frost & Sullivan sees Bio-on as a potential leader in the cosmetic industry’s “bio-polymeric ingredient revolution,” provided that regulations cooperate.

The word Beat Plastic Pollution, a campaign for the World Environment Day 2018, hand written on sandy beach background.

Italy-based Bio-on S.p.A. has reason to be optimistic about its Minerv-PHA biopolymer, which it says degrades completely in normal river water in just 10 days, representing a promising alternative to the polyethylene and other plastics used to make conventional cosmetic microbeads.

While the firm’s award-winning polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) may be friendly to the environment, certainly in comparison with traditional plastics, the question

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