An “alphabet soup” of less-familiar biopolymer materials with packaging uses is being heavily studied around the world, according to articles in the new Journal of Renewable Materials and recent
entries in the JRM’s... find more
By now it’s starting to seem that with the right process, you can make bio-based chemicals and polymers from nearly any kind of organic material: food crops, agricultural waste (and other plant
biomass), or even animal products... find more
Despite yet another report projecting strong future growth rates for bioplastics overall, the plastics industry was rocked last week by news about the dissolution of the alliance between bioresin
maker Metabolix Inc. and U.S. agricultural... find more