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Food based plastics real alternative to oil based
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by Paul Conneally | July 10, 2008 at 02:40 pm
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The idea of using food based plastics instead of oil based is an old idea being revisited as oil prices soar and environmental issues take cetre stage.
Landfills and plastics don't mix well. It takes several hundred years for an oil-based plastic bottle to breakdown in a landfill. And plastics can consume as much as 25% of the landfill space, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration.
Those two problems are helping drive innovation into new bioplastic packaging material at research institutions including Missouri University Science and Technology. There, researchers are cooking up recipes for super-biodegradable plastics that decompose in a few months.
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at 23:02 on July 10th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Good Idea, Australia is making Corn based Ball point pens and in Europe as well. However, Food products used for this can cause another food shortage as did Methanol!
It may be far better to focus of waist rather than Food products, and with the use of garbage we would also reduce the land field problems! (RRR)