Spotlight: Tetra Pak's Circular Economy Journey

[@Scott-sx1bf]

Love the idea of your product and expect that a major goal is to get approval for residential construction. I’m curious, though, about off-gassing and flammability. Any data available on these yet?

[@PLAEX]

Thank you! Our composite (PLAEX-crete™ ) is created with select polymer sources that are known to be generally safer. During development we have consulted with many experts in fire suppression and we have worked with the novel chemistry of our products to reduce flammability and spread as much as possible. We have made a lot of progress so far and we are looking forward to sharing the results as soon as they are verified by third party lab tests. We have achieved this without the use of some of the traditional flame retardants, which are beginning to be banned around the world. They are Fire Resistant, they inhibit flammability of the material, limit flame spread and limit smoke. As they do contain a significant amount of polymer they are not intend for use near open flame, they are NOT TO BE USED FOR FIRE PITS! Also, by laminating fireproof materials and or coatings onto the exposed faces of our brick and panel system, our full system will achieve extremely high fire resistance. PLAEX™ products will undergo extensive fire testing in the coming months and we are looking forward to sharing the results. We use all food-grade polymers which are generally considered very stable. It's the same polymers people were wearing on their faces to filter out COVID-19.

[@reed6514]

That's downcycling. Still good, but not circular.

[@PLAEX]

Thank you for your feedback.