Some companies are dabbling with the idea and others are taking it full throttle—like the snack brand, SunChips—who has teamed up NatureWorks, a company creating Ingeo products—to create 100 percent compostable packaging by 2010.
What is Ingeo? What plants does it derive from?
Ingeo is not made from oil, and instead, is 100 percent annually renewably resourced. Today, Ingeo™ currently uses plant sugars from field corn as the source material for manufacture. I'd emphasize though, that this innovation is a journey, where corn is only the starting point, not the destination--Ingeo™ can be made from any abundantly available sugar.
TH: Ingeo is referred to as a biopolymer. Please explain in laymen's terms.
SD: Simply put, materials which are either bio-based, or "biodegradable"/compostable after use, can both be labeled as biopolymers. Ingeo is both (it's bio-based and compostable with the right infrastructure) and so presents an interesting value proposition for designers, and brands, depending on the products in which they're using it, and the after use/recovery options that are available for that product.
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