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Bioplastic Innovation from Fish Waste

The document proposes using waste from the fishing industry to produce biodegradable plastics. Specifically, 75% of fish waste could be used to create bioplastics that degrade within 4-6 weeks. India has significant potential for this as the second largest fish producer globally. Producing bioplastics from fish waste would provide a sustainable solution and scale up to create a profitable business by adding value to the fishing industry and reducing plastic pollution.

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Bioplastic Innovation from Fish Waste

The document proposes using waste from the fishing industry to produce biodegradable plastics. Specifically, 75% of fish waste could be used to create bioplastics that degrade within 4-6 weeks. India has significant potential for this as the second largest fish producer globally. Producing bioplastics from fish waste would provide a sustainable solution and scale up to create a profitable business by adding value to the fishing industry and reducing plastic pollution.

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Team Name : Nature’s Knights

Name : Mahak Bhandari Name : Aryan Pandey Name : Shubh Patel


Roll No. : CH17B059 Roll No. : CH17B105 Roll No. : CH17B026
Institute Name : IIT Madras Institute Name : IIT Madras Institute Name : IIT Madras
Contact No. : 8849709734 Contact No. : 9840919511 Contact No. : 9003089539
Email-Id : mahakbhandari01@[Link] Email-Id : aryanp35@[Link] Email-Id : yashp103@[Link]
The Plastic Dilemma The Future

Affinity Problems What Next?


Keeping in mind the UN
40 Indian workers are
employed in plastic 800
Years taken for
decomposition of plastic
sustainability goals, production
of biodegradable plastics will be
LAKHS industry the next step
Turns out, the marine life, which is
MORE plastic deeply affected by the issue is the
30000 Processing units Plastic > Fish than fish in answer to our problem.
ocean by 2050.

Growth in plastics 10 Plastic fragments floating


10 % from 2010 to 2015
within every square mile of
LAKHS the world’s oceans affecting
marine life the most
13.4 MT -> 22MT Plastic that is discarded as
Increase in consumption of plastics by 40% waste in India is
2020.
BUT… uncollected

Being cheaper and more efficient than its alternatives, Plastics have become an
integral part of human lives and hence ban is not the solution , innovation is .
The Proposal Sustainable Scale Up

The Idea Feasibility Utilizing the waste produced by the


fishing industry and establishing a
bioplastic industry makes this idea
The solution lies in a recent 4-6 Weeks Degradation time,
stronger than other economically sustainable
research, which shows waste from
the fishing industry can be used to plastics and uses energy
Biodegradability, better strength
generate biodegradable plastics. efficient production
and value addition to the fishing
industry paves a perfect way to
scale this idea up to a successful
75 % Of total fish weight is Largest fish producer with total of
13.7 million metric tonnes
business model.
identified as waste
used to make 2nd production and holds immense 1400 bags of bioplastic could be
bioplastic. potential in the rise of a new marine- generated from organic waste of an
plastic Industry. average sized cod fish implying a
great potential for mass
production.
Red Is used as organic binder Coastal areas of states like Tamil Nadu,
Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh act
to make a perfectly green
Agar solution for bioplastic as production hub for agar reducing the
X 1400
transportation costs in the process
making it more localised

“Garbage is not waste, it’s simply raw material in the wrong place”

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