(CNN Business) For companies around the world and across industries, sustainability has rapidly gone from a nice-to-have to a business imperative. Newlight Technologies hopes to speed up that process with a biodegradable material that can be molded like plastic. The California-based company has spent more than a decade developing a material it calls AirCarbon, which it says functions exactly like plastic but is completely biodegradable. "We call that AirCarbon because it's air and carbon dissolved in water," CEO Mark Herrema told CNN's Rachel Crane. "We have this pure white powder that we can then melt and form in all kinds of parts and pieces."

Source: CNN October 19, 2020 16:13 UTC