“Why I Created Sacralin™” — A Letter From the Founder

By Dr Daniel DeBrouse, Inventor & Materials Scientist

For most of my life, I’ve watched the world struggle under the weight of plastic. It’s in our soil, our water, our food, and now even our bodies. Yet every year, we continue making more of it — not because we want to, but because the world has no simple alternative.

A two decades ago, I became obsessed with a question:

What if nature already provided the perfect replacement for plastic — and we simply hadn’t engineered it correctly?

That question led me deep into the world of structural polysaccharides — natural polymers like agar and alginate that form the structural framework for seaweeds, plants, and many of Earth’s most resilient organisms.

The more I worked with these materials, the more I realized something extraordinary:

Nature already solved the plastic problem.

We just needed to make her solution work on modern manufacturing equipment.

I spent years experimenting with agar, alginate, and glycerin — studying how they behave under heat, pressure, moisture, and mechanical stress. Those experiments became the foundation of my paper, The Rise of Structural Polysaccharides, which laid out how these natural polymers could serve as drop-in replacements for petroleum plastics.

But papers don’t change the world. Products do.

So I created Sacralin™ — a biodegradable pellet engineered to run on existing plastic processing lines with no retooling and no disruption. It biodegrades completely in about 30 days in soil, compost, or even marine environments. It leaves behind no microplastics, no toxins, and no trace of synthetic chemistry.

Sacralin isn’t just another “bioplastic.”
It represents a different way of thinking — one that respects nature not only as inspiration, but as the fundamental architect of our materials future.

My mission is simple:

To make it as easy as possible for manufacturers, brands, and supply chains to stop using fossil-based plastics — without slowing production, increasing costs, or compromising performance.

If we can give industry a material that works as well as plastic, but disappears like a plant after its useful life, then we can finally end the cycle of pollution that has defined the last 70 years.

That is the purpose behind Sacralin.
That is why I built it.
And that is the mission I invite you to join.

— Dr Daniel DeBrouse
Founder & Technology Creator, Sacralin™