Day: April 15, 2019
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Sealed Air & Kuraray Upgrade Plant-based Food Packaging Production Facilities
Sealed Air Corporation has invested in capacity at its Simpsonville, S.C. facility to produce plant-based food packaging. This facility will be the first in North America to produce materials made from Plantic™ plant-based resin and post-consumer plastic.
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ASU Researcher Uses Algae to Make Biodegradable Plastic
ASU professor Taylor Weiss works on developing bio-plastics in a lab on ASU’s Polytechnic campus
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Using Camel Cricket Bacteria to Degrade Plastic
A micro-organism discovered in greenhouse camel crickets can degrade lignin from wood, say researchers in the US. The new finding, which kickstarted thanks to a citizen science project, could help in the quest to find other organisms that break down different types of polluting waste, such as plastic.
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