Replace traditional plastics with bioplastics

ChrisP on January 15, 2024 at 11:19 pm

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.

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

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