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Dying to throw all your plastic in the compost bin? Biodegradable Plastic is on its way
Any gardener will tell you that tossing plastic into a compost pile is a lousy idea. However, within five years, empty bottles may become a welcome compost addition among heaps of eggshells and coffee grounds. Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a new biodegradable plastic that could replace our old plastic containers and packaging within two to five years.
This compostable substitute is created from sugar, by extracting a polymer from the glucose in plants and trees. Due to it's sugar composition, this new plastic degrades quickly in only a few months, instead of the hundreds of years required for current oil-based plastics. Only one percent of today's plastics are not created from fossil fuels, which means that full conversion to sugar-based plastics would diminish oil and gas consumption by a staggering 150 million tons per year-- seven percent of our worldwide demand! So, in the very near future, "plastic" may cease to be a dirty word and become... well, dirt. Looking forward to it!
Recommended for Further Reading:
- Garbage Patches are spreading to the Great Lakes
- Bioplastic from Algae coming soon
- New Device Uses Robotics to Improve Plastic Recycling
- Bicycle Path made of Recycled Printer Cartridges
- Is BPA the Asbestos of our generation? FDA now 'concerned,' but telling parents not to cha
- CALMAC Supports Proposed Thermal Energy Cooling and Heating Act of 2009
- Solarmer Plastic Solar Panels Certified for 7.9% Efficiency
- Stanford and IBM Create Environmentally Friendly Plastics
- Flex-Fuel Vehicles – Brazilian Success Story
- Recycling Plastic into Oil: A New Solution To Our Energy Crisis?
- Illumitex Square LED Lightbulb boasts lower cost, higher efficiency
- Kyocera Achieves World Record Solar Module Efficiency
- Energy Star certifies First Data Center
- Study Finds Clean Energy Could Reduce Indoor Pollution & Save Lives
- Google Funds Wind Farms in North Dakota
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