Sustainable agriculture
Doing business in a sustainable way is embedded within our long
term strategy. As part of our sustainable sourcing initiative,
Purac is a member of Bonsucro and SEDEX. Bonsucro is a global,
multi-stakeholder, nonprofit initiative dedicated to reducing the
environmental and social impacts of sugar cane production. To
ensure biodiversity for current and future generations, Purac
exclusively uses "GMO-free" feedstocks to produce its PLA
monomers.
Sustainable feedstocks
Purac is actively involved in various fundamental research and
development programs to develop cellulose-based, non-food raw
materials into a sustainable feedstock for PLA. Purac is
investigating some specific, currently available, by-product
streams that can be used as PLA feedstock. Purac is committed to
having a pilot facility using these alternative feedstocks in the
near future.