Consumer Products Made with Industrial Biotechnology
Consumer Old Manufacturing New Industrial Biotech Climate Benefits Consumer Benefit Product Process Process
Bread Potassium bromate, a Genetically enhanced • Reduces CO2 • High-quality bread suspected cancer-causing microorganisms produces emissions in grain • Longer shelf life agent at certain levels, baking enzymes to production, milling • Eliminates added as a preservative • Enhance rising and baking and suspected and a dough strengthening • Strengthen dough transportation carcinogen agent • Prolong freshness potassium bromate
Vitamin B2 Toxic chemicals, such as Genetically enhanced microbe • Up to 33% • Greatly reduces aniline, used in a nine step developed for one-step reduction in energy hazardous waste chemical synthesis process fermentation process, using use generation and (hazardous waste vegetable oil as a feedstock • 25% to 33% disposal generated) and sugar as nutrient reduction in CO2 emissions
Personal Care Chemical ingredients such Genetically enhanced microbe • 20% reduction of • High purity as propylene glycol and produces 1,3 propanediol greenhouse gas • Environmentally butylenes glycol from from renewable feedstocks, emissions compared sustainable and petroleum used as solvents which can function as a to petroleum PDO renewable process to mix ingredients solvent, humectant, emollient • Non-irritating for or hand-feel modifier sensitive skin • Enhanced clarity
Cosmetics Mineral oil and petroleum Metathesis chemistry applied • Reduction of • Smoother, less jelly from fossil sources to convert renewable process greasy feel used as ingredients vegetable oils to replacement temperatures • Semi-occlusive ingredients • Low toxicity film former products and • Enhanced hair- byproducts care properties
Consumer Old Manufacturing New Industrial Biotech Climate Benefits Consumer Benefit Product Process Process
Detergent Phosphates added as a Microbes or fungi genetically • Elimination of water • Brighter, cleaner brightening and cleaning enhanced to produce biotech pollution due to clothes with lower agent enzymes, which are added as phosphates wash temperature brightening and cleaning • Energy savings agents • Protease enzymes remove protein stains • Lipases remove grease • Amylases remove starch
Textiles New cotton textiles Use of biotech cellulose • 25% reduction in New fabrics have prepared with chlorine or enzymes to produce greenhouse gases • lower impact on chemical peroxide bleach peroxides • 25% reduction in the environment • allows low-temperature non-renewable • better dyeing bleaching of textiles, at energy use results 65°C, and • a permanent soft • at a neutral pH range and bulky handle
Paper Wood chips are boiled in a Wood bleaching enzymes • Reduces use of • Cost savings from harsh chemical solution to produced by genetically chlorine bleach and lower energy and yield pulp for paper making enhanced microbes to dioxins in the chemical use selectively degrade lignin and environment to break down wood cell walls during pulping
Diapers Woven fabric coverings Bacillus microbe ferments • 50 to 70 % • Biodegradable. made from petroleum- corn sugar to lactic acid, reduction in CO2 • End of life options based polyesters which is heated to create a emissions include biodegradable polymer for composting, woven fabrics rather than landfills
Consumer Old Manufacturing New Industrial Biotech Climate Benefits Consumer Benefit Product Process Process
Carpet Nylon fibers made from Genetically enhanced microbe • 20% reduction of Fibers have petroleum in a chemical produces 1,3 propanediol, greenhouse gas • durability, reaction which is a building block for emissions compared elasticity and other polymers such as Nylon to petroleum PDO softness • permanent stain and ultraviolet ray resistance
Furniture Polyurethane foam Polyols (such as Cargill’s • 60% reduction of • Comparable produced from petroleum BiOH or Dow’s Renuva) non-renewable quality and derived from soy and other energy properties to renewable feedstocks are • 23% reduction in polyurethane chemically mixed with other total energy foam ingredients to create a demand flexible foam
Polyesters Polyester, a synthetic Bacillus microbe ferments • 75% reduction of PLA polyester polymer fiber, produced corn sugar to lactic acid, CO2, compared to • is biodegradable chemically from petroleum which is heated to create a PET • does not harbor feedstock biodegradable polymer (such • 90% reduction of body odor like as NatureWorks’ Ingeo) CO2 equivalent other fibers compared to Nylon • does not give off 6 toxic smoke if burned
Stone Washed Open pit mining of pumice. Fabric washed with biotech • Less mining • Softer fabric Jeans Fabric washed with crushed enzyme (cellulases) to fade • Reduced energy • Lower cost pumice stone and/or acid and soften jeans or khakis consumption
Consumer Old Manufacturing New Industrial Biotech Climate Benefits Consumer Benefit Product Process Process
Synthetic Rubber Isoprene used in synthetic Genetically enhanced • Reduced use of • High purity and rubber produced from microorganisms ferment petroleum low cost petroleum BioIsoprene™ from sugars • Predictable raw derived from renewable material cost and resources. BioIsoprene™ availability polymerized to synthetic rubber and other elastomers
Biofuels Petroleum is cracked and Novel enzymes convert • 16% to 128% fewer • Reduced volatility distilled into gasoline and starches and cellulose in greenhouse gas in raw material byproducts, some of which biomass into sugars. emissions cost and are flared into atmosphere Genetically enhanced • Cleaner burning: availability microbes convert sugars to a 30% fewer tailpipe • The ethanol growing range of alcohols emissions of industry created
and esters nitrogen oxides and 240,000 domestic carbon monoxide jobs in 2008
Fuel Ethanol Acid hydrolysis of starch Enzymatic hydrolysis of • Reduces use of • Lower fuel prices: starch and cellulose chemicals and Without ethanol, energy, toxic gas prices would byproducts increase 14.6% in • Ethanol reduces the short term tailpipe emissions of and 3.7% long benzene, a known term carcinogen
Plastic Films Polyethylene made from Chemical building blocks • 80% reduced use of • Comparable natural gas liquids fermented from sugar. Heat fossil energy quality and processing and mixing • Plastics can be fully properties to converts ethanol to a biodegradable or petroleum-based polyethylene recyclable polyethylene
Consumer Old Manufacturing New Industrial Biotech Climate Benefits Consumer Benefit Product Process Process
Food Serviceware Polystyrene products based Bacillus microbe ferments • 62% reduction in • Compostable on petroleum corn sugar to lactic acid, GHG emissions serviceware which is heated to create a • 51 % reduction eliminates biodegradable polymer (such in non-renewable contamination as NatureWorks’ Ingeo) energy usage of food waste with petro- based plastics
Beverage Polyester, a synthetic Bacillus microbe ferments • 59% reduction in • Enables Packaging polymer fiber, produced corn sugar to lactic acid, GHG emissions feedstock chemically from petroleum which is heated to create a • 47 % reduction recovery feedstock biodegradable polymer (such in non-renewable (versus typical as NatureWorks’ Ingeo) energy usage ‘downcycling’ that occurs with existing PET- based bottles)
Food Packaging Polypropylene made from Bacillus microbe ferments • reduced use of • Comparable petroleum corn sugar to lactic acid, fossil energy quality and which is heated to create a • Promotes long-term properties to biodegradable polymer (such alternatives to litter petroleum- as NatureWorks’ Ingeo) problems based polypropylene
Plastic Containers Plastics (olefins and Naturally occurring microbial • 200% reduction in • Heat resistant styrenics) used for eating process genetically enhanced greenhouse gases • Compatible with utensils, beverage and food to produce • Reduces use of production containers, and personal polyhydroxyalkanoates petroleum machinery, so no care products made from (PHAs, such as Telles’ Mirel). • Biodegradable and increased cost petroleum PHAs can also be grown in compostable genetically engineered switchgrass plants