Plant-based Plastic
The problem with traditional plastic bottles
The global $375 billion bottled water industry produces 18 million tonnes of plastic water bottles annually. This results in 200-400 million tonnes of greenhouse gases being generated each year.
Most of these single-use plastic bottles are produced from oil, which means they don’t decompose and continually litter our waterways. To make it worse, these bottles leach microplastics which are ingested by marine life, and ultimately, by us.
A far better alternative is an environmentally friendly, plastic-substitute called polylactic acid (PLA).
PLA water bottles are biodegradable, compostable and less toxic. No PLA is currently produced in Australia, and Good Water Energy intends to explore this potential after demonstration of electricity, water and green hydrogen production.
Utilising our zero-emission electricity and waste thermal energy from our geothermal power plant, we could turn locally grown crops into PLA water bottles, which in turn can be used to transport our zero emission water.
Water bottles are just the beginning; PLA can be utilised to make a range of consumer goods.
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