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Polymara are working to create new bioplastics from natural biopolymers, obtained from plentiful renewable sources to replace single use forever plastic items. The word Bioplastic is used to define materials made from natural substances, that compost or fully decompose in the earth all the way through to materials made from renewable sources that behave the same as fossil fuel sourced plastics and which have the same longevity. They are different from fossil fuel based polymers because of their natural origins, and because their structures have greater variation within them not a true repetition of the same “lego block” over and over. The most sustainable bioplastics use biopolymers in their formulations. Biopolymers are found in nature in much of the biomass around us and many of them have been already used to make some bioplastics that we are familiar with such as the starch based bags for food composting. The most abundant natural biopolymers are: Cellulose – wood provides 50% of world’s cellulose.