Notpla (formerly Skipping Rocks Lab)

Updated: 07/2021

United Kingdom / London , United Kingdom

Angel/Seed 01/2020

Pitch

Compostable and edible seaweed-based packaging in a flexible product for many uses to replace polluting plastic, winning accolades from WIRED, Fortune and TIME.

Why

Single-use plastic pollution

Single-use plastics account for over half of the 300m tons of plastic waste every year.

2019 EU directive

Since July 2021, the EU has banned use of 10 single-use plastic items in region.

Sustainable alt-plastic resources

Seaweeds don’t need water or fertilizer; some grow up to 1 meter per day.

Market

2.87m tons

Estimated global bioplastics production capacities in 2025, higher than 2.11m tons in 2020, when bioplastics represented about 1% of 368m tons of plastic produced annually (European Bioplastics)

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