A new plant designed to product 2,000 tons per year of bioplastics from potato waste will be built in Italy through a collaborative effort between Bio-On, a sustainable chemicals technology company, and Pizzoli, Italy’s largest potato operator. The type of bioplastics produced will be PHAs, or polyhydroxyalkanoates, which have numerous applications and can replace a number of traditional plastics made from fossil fuel-derived petrochemicals. Production of PHAs from potatoes at this new plant is scheduled to begin in 2017 and is hoped to reach 4,000 TPY in the future.

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