TripleW
TripleW decarbonizes food waste and transforms it into high-value, low-cost biomaterials, utilizing a climate transformative technology.
About Us
TripleW is a food-waste to biomaterials company, which has developed, designed, and operates an industrial bioprocess to upcycle food waste into lactic acid and Poly Lactic Acid (PLA), a high-demand bioplastic. The drop-in technology upgrades existing waste management facilities, significantly increasing their product returns. Advantages of the TripleW process include:
– For each 1 kilogram of lactic acid produced from food waste, TripleW’s technology causes a net decrease of 0.7 kg of greenhouse gas emissions
– By using food waste instead of food crops (e.g., corn and sugar cane) for lactic acid production, zero arable land is used
– Fossil-based chemicals used in consumer goods are displaced by 100% renewable carbon
– TripleW technology also takes care of PLA bioplastic packaging waste by reusing it as feedstock for lactic acid production
Relevant Challenges
Waste Management
Innovations in sorting, recycling and recovery processes and infrastructure for optimal conversion and utilization of waste (biomass and inert materials) for the production of new raw materials.
Biomaterials
Materials generated from a renewable and sustainable bio-based source (including low or carbon negative plant, fungi and algae sources and by-products) as well as waste streams (such as urban and agricultural biowaste and waste-water sludge) and via microbial and enzymatic processes.
