China to make bioplastic from waste cooking oil

China is obtaining technology from the Czech Republic to produce PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates) biopolymer from China’s abundant waste cooking oil and make biodegradable food packaging out of the material. China has a notorious underground industry that recycles cooking oil from restaurant and kitchen waste, posing public health risks.
Jiangsu Clean Environmental Technology recently signed contracts with Nafigate to commercialize the Hydal technology, developed by assistant professor Ivana Marova’s team at Brno University of Technology in Brno (Czech Republic). One kg of waste oil can yield 0.6 kg of PHA (News Article European Plastics, 14 February 2014).
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