New Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Creating Environmentally Friendly Bioplastics from Potatoes
SpecialChem
- Sep 11, 2009
What do disposable food and beverage containers, disposable cutlery, frisbees, golf tees, greenhouse pots, and boomerangs have in common? They can all be manufactured as biodegradable products using vegetable starch.
Corn is currently the preferred source for starches used in bioplastics as the crop is produced in large amounts in North America. The technologies for milling and fractionating the starches in corn are already well understood and available.
Now research in Canada to create bioplastics from potatoes is getting a boost through the newly-created BioPotato Network. This federally-funded network, led by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, brings together scientists from governments, academia and...
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