{"id":115946,"date":"2023-08-08T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/researchers-create-plastic-alternative-thats-compostable-in-home-and-industrial-settings\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:00:06","slug":"researchers-create-plastic-alternative-thats-compostable-in-home-and-industrial-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/researchers-create-plastic-alternative-thats-compostable-in-home-and-industrial-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create plastic alternative that\u2019s compostable in home and industrial settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115946\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Researchers at Michigan State University say they&#8217;ve developed a new biodegradable plastic alternative that&#8217;s easier to compost. The team created a bio-based polymer blend that\u2019s compostable in both home and industrial settings, the university&#8217;s School of Packaging announced last week after their work was published in the peer-reviewed ACS Publications journal.<\/p>\n<p>Biodegradable plastics can cut down on waste from single-use plastics like straws and water bottles, said team lead Rafael Auras, who hopes the research can make a dent in the global effort to reduce plastic waste. It can take as much as 20 days before PLA starts to be digested by microbes in an industrial compost setting, researchers said. To accelerate this process, the team incorporated what&#8217;s called a &#8220;thermoplastic starch&#8221; into PLA. This carbon-based starch helps the microbes in compost more easily break down the bioplastic.<\/p>\n<p>Adding the thermoplastic starch will not compromise the quality of PLA, such as the strength, clarity and other desirable features, researchers said in the release. Additionally, the bioplastic can be composted alongside food scraps. That means you wouldn&#8217;t have to rinse food out of takeaway containers or coffee out of a disposable cup before throwing it out. The research demonstrates that compostable bio-based plastic packaging is possible, but implementation is a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/08\/07\/biodegradable-plastic-home-thermoplastic-starch\/70541724007\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-377\/\">Researchers create plastic alternative that&#8217;s compostable in home and industrial settings<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10973,575,5447,7221],"class_list":["post-115946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-biodegradable-plastic","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-pla","tag-starch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}