Facts

TripleW opened a new plant in Antwerp.

Triple W will convert 10 ton of green waste into lactic acid on a daily basis.

The plant is located in the green district of the Port of Antwerp.

TripleW claims that their model is different than competitors because they use food waste instead of fresh food (Note of the editor: indeed, fresh food is used to produce bioplastics).

The waste feedstock will come from industrial bakeries, the Colruyt group, supermarkets, and the dairy industry.

TripleW plans to build a new commercial plant next door with a daily capacity of 300 ton of green waste

My Personal Opinion

TripleW is an Israeli startup that received EU funding. They EU commission likes to feast on EU tax payer money. Why wasn’t the money given to an EU startup?

In addition, it’s been rock and roll there in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. We were told in the media that collaboration with Israeli companies should be put on hold, apparently it doesn’t apply for EU funding. (Then again, I’lm not really in favour of this boycott thingy, but the zeitgeist is slightly controversial on this point … And Europe should have principles …. God damn it. We boycotted the entire Russian shebang because of the Russian Ukrainian war; it’s always double standards.

TripleW technology is not the most efficient technology to convert food waste into lactic acid; why didn’t the EU commission do a better comparative study to select a more efficient technology?

Is it always the same lobbyists and organisations that help their friends and friends’s friends to get EU funding?

TripleW lactic acid will be used to produce PLA plastic. All that green buffalo bill show to produce so-called compostable PLA plastics that will pollute our soils and farmlands and make us eat more plastic in the worse case or finish incinerated in the best case?

In case TRipleW founders have Jewish ancestors who suffered the Shoah, how will they deal with the fact that the European PLA is usually mixed with PBAT produced by BASF? PBAT and the Third Reich Connections … I mean karma is a péripatéticienne to quote the French.