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Plastic made from fish skin just won a James Dyson award

 Last Update: 2022-08-21
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Single-use plastics are choking our oceans and killing marine life, but a young designer from the UK may have found a solution, using algae and fish waste to create a plastic that has just taken Got the James Dyson Award

Known as MarinaTex, the material is a clear, flexible bioplastic produced in sheet form and designed to replace single-use plastics such as plastic bags and food packaging

Fish skin contains strong, elastic proteins, while agar acts as a binder to gel the substances together - two organic substances combined to form a fully biodegradable bioplastic

This isn't the first biodegradable packaging made from organic materials

MarinaTex is the brainchild of University of Sussex student Lucy Hughes, 24, who created the material during her final year product design course before winning the James Dyson Award won the top prize of $35,000

When Hughes refined the MarinaTex recipe on the stove in her student apartment, she hoped to expand the invention to a commercially viable product

"Plastic is an amazing material, and as a result, as designers and engineers, we have become too dependent on plastic," she said

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