The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center and Metabolix, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., have teamed up to work on PHA food-packaging film to provide biodegradable packaging products for the U.S. Navy

Plastics Engineering, April, 2004 by Hope Molinaro

The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center and Metabolix, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., have teamed up to work on PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) food-packaging film to provide biodegradable packaging products for the U.S. Navy. Metabolix will work with the Natick Soldier Center to develop compositions suitable for extrusion processing; investigations could lead to exploring nanocomposites and coextruded multilaminate systems incorporating PHAs as potential food-packaging film for the Navy as well as the Army.

The work is supported by the U.S. Navy's Waste Removal Afloat Protects the Sea (WRAPS) program.