Radical Plastics

Radical Plastics is a woman-owned business started by Dr. Yelena Kann and Kristin Taylor with the goal of making a meaningful contribution to the battle against plastic pollution. Radical Plastics has developed a game-changing solution to plastic pollution. After spending decades in the plastics industry and seeing the impact of these materials on the environment, the founders felt a calling to create a better, more sustainable solution. Radical Plastics is providing a drop-in replacement for conventional plastics that is economical, recyclable AND fully biodegradable.

So, let's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Redesign plastics so we can enjoy their many benefits without polluting our planet.

At Radical Plastics, we’ve developed a patented technology that involves blending conventional plastics with our proprietary, naturally occurring catalyst. When properly compounded, this catalyst has the ability to render regular plastics biodegradable in the natural environment.

Items made from the Radical Plastics compound perform just like regular plastics. But if they end up in the environment, the free radical catalyst converts the plastic into a material that microbes recognize as food. This allows them to metabolize the material turning it into biomass, CO2 and water. Radical Plastics compounds biodegrade fully in the environment leaving no residue, no toxic substances and no microplastics.