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Research has shown that Bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic food wrapping, containers and bottles could be harmful or toxic to our bodies. According to an online article, certain plastics have already been banned in Canada and there has been a move to ban them in the United States.
Old Researchers for the National Research Council Canada have discovered a strain of bacteria (alcaligenes latus) that eats away at maple sap, and in the process, produces a biopolymer that can be used to create a biodegradable plastic. The advantages of this discovery is that we are moving away from a dependency on food crops…
In response to an article about oxo-degradable plastics in the Exchange Morning Post, Dr Jim Lunt wrote a letter to the editor expressing his concern that the article was fuelling misconceptions that these kinds of plastics are harmless to the environment. “There is also no reputable evidence that these polymer fragments are attacked by microorganisms. There…
A range of biodegradable packaging products “Bio-plastics is a young industry, which we often say is relatively still in nappies, so it is possible we won’t be using the same materials in another five years. Nonetheless, we have no choice to move away from non-renewable sources, so we must not put barriers on renewable products…
A company called OrganoClick have come up with a way to make non-wrinkling, waterproof and bacteria-fighting packaging made out of paper, cotton or wood, using only natural, non-synthetic compounds, such as linseed oil. This means that in the future, we’ll have products such as water-resistant cloth without the polyurethanes and waterproof paper without the nasty…
