Food engineer Duygu Yılmaz, while wondering whether her father's habit of swallowing olive pits at breakfast was right or wrong for his health, succeeded in producing bioplastic, a natural alternative to plastic, as a result of her research.
Biolive, which won first place in the International Advanced Materials Category at a competition in the United States and also received R&D investment from Vestel Venture, continues to add new achievements to its successes every day.
Biolive collects olive pit waste from factories and transforms it into antimicrobial bioplastic granules. Materials produced with bioplastics can be used in various fields such as antibacterial food packaging films, vehicle interior materials, and white goods. Vestel aims to be one of the pioneering companies in this field and is conducting trials on the use of bioplastics in refrigerators.
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