Saturday 30 August 2014

Turning waste from rice, parsley and other foods into biodegradable plastic

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Turning waste from rice, parsley and other foods into biodegradable plastic
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 - Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting. The novel process they developed and their results, which could help the world deal with its agricultural and plastic waste problems, appear in the ACS journal Macromolecules. Athanassia Athanassiou, Ilker S. Bayer and colleagues at ... more


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