Key differences between Timeplast and the rest of materials

Here are the key differences between Timeplast and other materials:

1) Biobased/Biodegradable plastics like PLA, PHA, and biodegradable additives.

Biobased plastics, in general, are non-soluble polymer chains with very similar characteristics, if not exactly the same, as conventional plastics, with the main difference of not being sourced from Petroleum and "approving" biodegradation's standardized tests, however a study from Europe Oceana reported that "In the case of bioplastics and compostable plastics, such claims are misleading and offer a false solution to the marine plastic crisis". This echoes many other scientists including renowned scientists and experts on the topic, such as Jason Locklin, the director of the New Materials Institute at the University of Georgia who said:  "Choosing products with packaging that claims to be biodegradable or compostable might mean that they degrade only under special conditions" and Jacqueline McGlade, chief scientist at the UN Environment Programme, told the Guardian that: “It’s well-intentioned but wrong. A lot of plastics labeled biodegradable, like shopping bags, will only break down in temperatures of 50C (122F) and that is not the ocean" (or your backyard) she said. Studies showed that landfills have been opened after several decades and newspapers’ print can still be read in every single case. Not even a leaf falling from a tree in an average backyard will biodegrade, it’ll only get compacted down to deeper layers of the earth to the point it reaches the lithosphere; the proof of this is based on the fact that we have petroleum and carbon deposits deep down the earth’s surface (90%+ of all carbon in our planet is solid). If all organic materials had biodegraded (the process of turning solid carbon into gas carbon through metabolic processes) our atmosphere would have more carbon in gas form than our lithosphere in solid, which isn’t the case. 

2) Recycled materials:

Recycling not only is not feasible but it effectively creates more pollution given that plastic is not truly recyclable but downcyclable, (https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2022/5/16/what-really-happens-to-your-plastic-recycling ) meaning that it loses quality (increased cross-links, micro-ash formation within the chain and with that its ability to micro fragment) every time it is recycled, unlike metal and glass which are truly recyclable. Not only that, but recycling implies reusing, and the reutilization of conventional (fossil-based) plastics may seem like another great idea, however it may possibly be the worst option of them all. Examples of why, are Kettles and baby bottles which shed micro-plastics with every use. Dunzhu Li and other researchers at Trinity College Dublin, reported last October in a paper published in Nature Food; “If parents prepare baby formula by shaking it up in hot water inside a plastic bottle, their infant might end up swallowing more than one million microplastic particles each day" the team calculated.  

Plastics’ incineration takes solid carbon and turns it into gas carbon, which means that we’re taking a solid, local problem, and turning it into a global gaseous problem.

Chemical recycling is the only actual circular recycling process, in which the polymer chain is broken and cleaned before being reconstituted into a new plastic, however chemical recycling of a non-soluble plastic is a very difficult task, which uses toxic solvents and energy-intense processes, which renders unviable and financially ineffective any true scalability of said chemical recycling process. 

In addition, recapturing plastic at 100% for burning, gasification or mechanical/chemical recycling will never happen, and even if we were to recycle all of our waste, (an impossibility), eventually earth will deal with the entirety of our materials, recycled or not. The more likely reality is that plastics end up in the environment/oceans fragmenting into microscopic pieces, and with that, the food chain and our bloodstream (according to many studies we ingest about the weight of a credit card in micro plastics every week https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000247). 

Circular economy (the dream of a utopian perfect recycling system) is not feasible unless we adapt it to a planetary level. For that reason, Nature developed water as the main chemical circular route to deal with waste through its universal solvent capabilities. Water is the key to all elements of life, and we should follow that chemical pathway. Microplastics exist precisely because they can be eroded down to nanometric particles without losing their molecular weight, if they were hydro soluble their molecular weight would drop to naturally occurring levels. 

Pabyss, Timeplast's reverse reactor for plastic disposal, creates a perfect scenario for true chemical recycling, in which Timeplast's dissolved materials can be either disposed of in the waste water stream in the most environmentally prudent, safe and benign way through completely dissolved and benign non-plastic waste, or it could be used to mine virgin-quality industrial-level chemically-upcycled raw materials from Timeplast's waste, which then can be turned into new applications with true circularity.

 When you look at our planet from outer space it is blue for a very important reason, Nature developed water as the universal solvent, and just like Francis Bacon said; “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed”.