"Lactic acid is the main building block for the biodegradable biopolymer PLA, which has been replacing fossil-based plastics in many applications. However, lactic acid is being produced from refined crop sugars, which uses the land that could be used for food production instead.

Nature's Principles is upscaling a novel patented fermentation process that is more robust and resilient, being feedstock agnostic and bringing the possibility to produce lactic acid from industry residual streams while decreasing process operational costs."