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At Micromidas Inc, green technology and clean technology are not just another set of buzz words. For us, they represent the future. We are committed to prove that green technology and sustainable business practices will succeed in today's marketplace and will be the driving force for scientific technology and corporate platforms into the future. By creating and expanding techonologies that are profitable and environmentally friendly, we free economic growth from the harmful effects of pollution and resource depletion. Using our sustainable solutions, we hope to propel our world toward a brighter future and new horizons.

By applying a naturally occuring microbial phenomena, we convert the carbon in organic wastewater into polyhydroxylalkanoate (PHA), a family of high-performance, highly marketable biodegradable plastics. Our process consumes carbon and other nutrients from the waste stream that would have to undergo costly processes such as incineration or chemical treatment.

Using microbes native to earth's soil and water, we have created a biological population capable of producing high yields of PHA and digesting a wide variety of carbon sources. We fuel our population with municipal wastewater, a cheap, readily available, and renwable feedstock. By designing around the "dirtiest" and most challenging waste stream available, we have developed a robust population that resists environmental stresses and invasion by other microbes. Our process is far more robust than those centered on GMOs (genetically modified organisms) that require strict environmental controls and sterile operating conditions or other methods that require expensive feedstocks.

• Colby Coombs wrote (2 years ago):

  This inititive warrants mulling: Thailand's National Innovation Agency currently focusses on cassava oil as a source for bioplatic. Cassava, of course, is major food-plant.

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