Synthetic, single-use plastic. It transformed our world and our supply chains. But there’s the flip side. The packets and bags that take decades to decompose, oceans clogged with detritus, microplastics found everywhere from Everest to our most intimate innards.
British company Aquapak is offering a solution — literally. Its Hydropol polymer material is a plastic that can fully dissolve in water. “It’s like sugar in tea,” CEO Mark Lapping tells me.
