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Eco-Friendly Replacement For Plastic Wrap Made From Crab Shells And Wood Pulp

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Eco-Friendly Replacement For Plastic Wrap Made From Crab Shells And Wood Pulp
 
By Aliyah Kovner
23 Jul 2018, 23:17

Hoping to curb the impending plastic apocalypse, scientists across the world are scrambling to develop sustainable and biodegradable materials that can offer the same practical benefits as petroleum-derived polymers.

And in the latest encouraging blow against single-use food packaging – the largest source of humanity’s 6.3 billion metric ton and growing collection of plastic waste – researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a flexible film that could soon replace the convenient yet unrecyclable, non-decaying environmental scourge that is plastic wrap.

The novel product is made by spraying alternating layers of chitin and cellulose fibers, sourced from discarded crab shells and wood pulp, respectively, onto a polylactic acid (PLA) base.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/ecofriendly-replacement-for-plastic-wrap-made-from-crab-shells-and-wood-pulp/

truth_seeker:
Futurist engineer-manufacturer Sir Elon Musk, he gonna send out a fleet of solar powered electric boats, to skim up alla da bad plastics and use them as raw materials, to build a Stairway to Heaven.

Or else somebody else gonna do it.

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