Shrimpo Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 (Phys.org) —Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have developed a method to carry out large-scale manufacturing of everyday objects—from cell phones to food containers and toys—using a fully degradable bioplastic isolated from shrimp shells. The objects exhibit many of the same properties as those created with synthetic plastics, but without the environmental threat. It also trumps most bioplastics on the market today in posing absolutely no threat to trees or competition with the food supply. The advance was reported online last week in Macromolecular Materials & Engineering.Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-03-fully-compostable-bioplastic-shrimp-shells.html#jCp Doc4PC2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 i read about this some where was probably facebook or yahoo. i think its kinda cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquasapien69 Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 That's very interesting. Thanks for posting! Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 I forwarded that to my brother who is an organic chemist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamashack Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Wonder how soon it will be commercially available! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Probably not for years. Patents need to be made, applications and equipment designed to make the plastics and cell phones etc Ts used form copy wrights. Formulas etc. I say another 10 years at minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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