{"id":130866,"date":"2024-05-29T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/researchers-transform-olive-grove-waste-into-bioplastic\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:00:12","slug":"researchers-transform-olive-grove-waste-into-bioplastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/researchers-transform-olive-grove-waste-into-bioplastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Transform Olive Grove Waste Into Bioplastic"},"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\/130866\" \/>\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 from the University of Ja\u00e9n and the Andaltec Foundation have manufactured plastic suitable for food packaging and industrial uses from olive grove pruning waste. The researchers refined biomass obtained from olive leaves and branches into biopolymers that can resist temperatures up to 300 \u00baC or 400 \u00baC, depending on the type of treatment. As a result of their high heat resistance, the scientists said the biopoymers are an excellent candidate for use as biofilm in food packaging applications.<\/p>\n<p>The compound of interest in any type of bioplastic manufacturing is the cellulose in lignocellulose, which is also composed of hemicellulose and lignin. Olive tree biomass contains between 30 and 40 percent cellulose. During their investigation, the researchers refined the biomass fibers into cellulose pulp and then chemically transformed this into cellulose acetate. \u201cThe production of cellulose acetate using this approach presents some advantages from different perspectives,\u201d they wrote. The researchers argued that transforming olive grove waste into bioplastic provides superior economic benefits for farmers than using the waste for composting, energy generation or soil cover.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the researchers argued that the new application of the olive farming byproduct could reduce its environmental impact. By some estimates, high-density and super-high-density farms in Spain yield 30 tons of olive tree pruning biomass per hectare each year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oliveoiltimes.com\/business\/europe\/researchers-transform-olive-grove-waste-into-bioplastic\/131795\">Olive Oil Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-531\/\">Researchers Transform Olive Grove Waste Into Bioplastic<\/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":[5445,14718,575,12193],"class_list":["post-130866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bioplastic","tag-cellulose","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-olive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130866","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=130866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}