There is water soluble plastic and it ends like it never happened. The invention, now several years old, is once again out of date due to the growing problem of plastic pollution affecting both marine and terrestrial environments with no immediate signs of resolution. The author of this innovation is an Israeli engineer and business woman.
Sharon Barak is the CTO of Israeli company Solutum, which won Tel Aviv University’s Coller School’s annual startup competition.
“The planet is not on the right track. Everyone knows about the plastic problem. The second biggest problem ravaging our planet after climate changesaid Barak.
Concerned about what life would be like for his young children in the future due to the degradation of the planet, the scientist set to work: “I knew I had to do something,” he admitted to Israel21c.
Faced with evidence that half of all plastic produced on the planet is used only once, Barak began investigating how biodegradable materials degrade in nature and thought about how sugar dissolves in water, for example.
This is how the idea of developing a natural material that dissolves like sugar dissolves in water was born.
To make this material no complex processes or chemicals are required to break up the material. In Sharon Barak’s company, which specializes in sustainable products, products are produced with 100% ecological raw materials and machines that are generally used in plastic production.
Their clients already include the giant Colgate and many other small companies. From the first time this plastic was marketed, sales increased significantly.
The businesswoman and engineer recalls that plastic reaching the sea kills more than a million marine animals a year. “This plastic also comes back to us as food and water and is causing major health problems in humans,” she says.
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