Replace traditional plastics with bioplastics

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   ChrisP on January 15, 2024 at 11:19 pm

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   Idea: Replace traditional plastics with bioplastics

   Link: https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-bioplas...

   Bioplastics are more expensive than traditional, single-use plastics. The only hope is for a cheaper bioplastic material or a strict global ban on all oil-based plastics.

   Why Bioplastics Will Not Solve the World’s Plastics Problem

   Link: https://e360.yale.edu/features/w

   Bioplastics are being touted by industry marketers as the solution to plastics pollution. But the idea that bottles and packaging made of plant-based material can simply be discarded and then break down and disappear is false – recycling and reuse are the only strategies that can work.

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   Seal Dwidakiss on January 15, 2024 at 9:48 pm

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   Idea: Replace traditional plastics with bioplastics

   Link: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/innovato...

   Why are seaweed bioplastics not yet mainstream?

   Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

   Link: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/0

   Seaweed, a common name for thousands of marine plants and algae found in different water bodies, not only provides food and shelter for marine animals, but it can also help solve the plastic pollution problem. Materials researchers from Flinders University in Australia and German biomaterials develo... Read more

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   green fingers on January 15, 2024 at 8:15 pm

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   Idea: Replace traditional plastics with bioplastics

   Link: https://showme.missouri.edu/2023/engineeri...

   Check out these scientists that are turning food waste into eco-friendly bioplastics that can replace oil-based plastics.
   https://showme.missouri.edu/2023/engineering-researcher-helps-turn-food-wastes-into-plastic/

   Engineering researcher helps turn food wastes into plastic

   Link: https://showme.missouri.edu/2023

   Caixia “Ellen” Wan is assisting other researchers at Virginia Tech on a $2.4 million grant from the USDA.

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