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Biomaterials

TripleW gets cash for food waste upcycling

by Matt Blois
April 1, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 11

 

TripleW has raised $16.5 million in series B financing to commercialize a technology that uses microbes to turn food waste into lactic acid, a starting material for the biodegradable plastic polylactic acid (PLA). TripleW says it can also use discarded PLA products as a feedstock. The firm hopes to use the funding to install its technology in two existing waste management facilities. The Dutch company ChainCraft raised $11 million last year for a plant that converts food waste into fatty acids.

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