ULUU - Mitigates Plastic Pollution Services
Replacing plastic, fighting climate change and improving our health. ULUU mitigates plastic pollution at scale, while regenerating our oceans and climate. We produce a versatile range of natural polymers, PHAs (polyhydroxalkanoates), with the potential to replace many (if not all) plastics, combined with a clean production process using ocean resources – seaweed, seawater and saltwater microbes.
Like plastic, produced naturally
ULUU’s a safe, natural polymer – a type of PHA that’s durable yet truly biodegradable, even in cold, dark conditions such as the ocean (in several months in those conditions, so please dispose wisely).
It’s produced via fermentation – like brewing beer – using saltwater microbes, which reduces fresh water reliance (we use seawater instead!) as well as the need for costly & harmful chemicals and the energy-intensive, slow equipment sterilisation processes others perform.
In contrast, ULUU’s seawater process unlocks “open and continuous fermentation”, where sterilisation downtime is reduced, providing the potential for major yield & cost improvements, while reducing associated GHG emissions.
Seaweed – a remarkable feedstock
We utilise farmed seaweed rather than terrestial crops or waste as a carbon source to produce ULUU.
Doing so not only provides economic advantages but, more importantly, the unique potential to scale enough carbon to decouple our polymer economy from fossil fuels.
Further positive externalities include:
- Uptake of significant carbon pollution from the atmosphere;
- Ocean re-oxygenation, de-acidification and marine habitat provision;
- Eutrophication remediation and reduction of harmful bloom events, caused by industrial runoff; and
- Opportunities to improve the lives of vulnerable people in the seaweed supply chain (often female farmers) living below the poverty line and in remote coastal communities.