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Patricia Aymà Maldonado

👤 Speaker
226 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

Our bioplastic is double bioplastic from its origin to its end of life.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

We work with agri-food companies, for example a beer production company.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

And they give to us the leftover or the spent yeast from the beer production.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

At first stage, we have a group of bacterias that cook the waste, okay?

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

They are like the chef.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

And they cook the waste so that it's like really tasty.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

For a second stage, another one group of bacteria take that tasty waste and produce the bioplastic.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

And at the end, we obtain the bioplastic.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

This is a thing that some kind of bacteria can do, not all the bacteria can do, and it's an adaptive survival skill.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

You have to ask bacteria for doing something, and she will do it.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

For me, bacteria is a girl, okay?

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

So it's a super girl.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

We work with a system that is installed there where the waste is generated in the customer facilities, and we start taking the waste directly into our model, our box.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

And that is working 24 hours a day.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

It is a new scenario for companies working with us.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

They go from managing a waste into having a real benefit, a real value, because they do not have to change machines.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

They have to change the mentality.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

Right now,

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

We're already treating three tons of spent yeast in a day.

TED Talks Daily
The brilliance of bacteria (and how they combat waste) | Patricia Aymà Maldonado

We take 300 grams of spent yeast to produce one kilo of our bioplastic.