OrganoClick's R&D Director Maria Wennman is defending and presenting her doctoral thesis on biobased binders based on shrimp shells and cellulose that replace plastic binders in nonwoven textiles
More than 12 million tons of plastic are released into the oceans every year. Some of the most common plastic waste is made from nonwoven textiles found in, for example, wet wipes and baby diapers. Based on more than 15 years of research and development, OrganoClick has developed biobased and biodegradable binders based on e.g. shrimp shells and cellulose that can replace plastic binders in these materials. The research behind the technologies is now presented in a doctoral thesis by OrganoClick's R&D manager Maria Wennman via a collaboration with KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology with