Okosix will display the decomposed plastic in Techcrunch Disrupt 2025

Health care is sunk in a single use plastic materials. In the healthcare facilities in the United States alone, More than 2,800 tons Plastic packaging is offered every day.

Few people are more aware of this than Eddie. Early the epidemic, Yu founded a company that made it eliminated. One day, his sister’s daughter was with him while recycling, and asked him whether his recyclable mask was also.

“I actually told her that we cannot recycle the mask,” Teccrunch told Techcrunch. “You just interrupted me and said,” Oh, then make a lot of garbage every day. “

The words of the little girl are stuck with Yu, and after selling the mask company in 2021, he set out to an amendment.

In an attempt to tame the one -use plastic problem for health care, the New Yu, OkosixI developed a new vibrant polymer. Okosix part of Battle start startingAnd it will be presented in Techcrunch crashes Later this month in San Francisco.

Okosix mixes many compounds including cellulose, chitosan derived from crustacean shells, wax, and property materials. The result is cheaper than poly -alactic acid (PLA), which is a widely analyzed plastic, with “breath or even better” functions than PLA, said Yu.

Yu said that between plastic, the term “biological decomposition” is often misused. Some require that very specific circumstances decompose, while others simply collapse in micro or nanoparticles.

Yu said: “We have international certificates to prove that the materials have been completely given in six months.”

Ukosix begins with the masks of the face, but it also plans to make surgical gowns, pits, and healthy napkins. “We want to use a safe, non -plastic material, to replace fossil plastic materials for available products.”

Although the company has not yet performed an analysis of the official life cycle, Yu said that okosix materials should contain a 90 % less carbon imprint than polypropylene, which is one plastic that is widely used.

Okosix sells its materials to third parties, which turns it into different products. Yu said: “At the present time, our business model is like Gore-Tex,” said Yu. “We do not make final products, but we make the layer, make raw materials, then work with companies like 3M.” He added that the brand can become an important part of the work, similar to Gore-Tex.

The startup raised $ 2.3 million, including investments from founders and other owners investors.

Listen more from Okosix and dozens of other startups directly, participate in valuable workshops, and make permanent contacts in Disable this yearOn October 29 in San Francisco.