“Our scalable manufacturing method shows that chitosan, which is readily available and inexpensive, can serve as a viable bioplastic that could potentially be used instead of conventional plastics for numerous industrial applications.”Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Our world is filling with environmentally damaging plastic that will never biodegrade. A move to bioplastics could be essential for the future of the planet and it’s inhabitants. Plastic drinks bottles and take away boxes that will actually encourage plant growth – sounds too good to be true!
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