What separates biodegradable plastics from their more long-lived cousins are polymers. Plastics based on natural plant polymers, derived from wheat or corn starches, have molecules that are easily broken down by microbes; traditional plastics have polymer molecules too large and too tightly bonded together to be broken apart by decomposer organisms.

The technology used in our corn plastic products allows abundant annually renewable resources like ordinary field maize to replace finite ones (petroleum) in everyday products, such as food packaging, bottles, disposable serviceware etc. The process to produce the polyactides (PLA) essentially harvests the starch stored in natural plant sugars. The sugar is then fermented into lactic acid, which is used to create a clear plastic that can be shaped as required.