bioplastics

US firm claims bioplastics production breakthrough

NatureWorks LLC, a US-based maker of bioplastics, announced today that it has achieved a manufacturing breakthrough with a process that reduces its carbon emissions by 60 percent and cuts energy consumption by 30 percent. The production improvements make the company’s Ingeo™ plant-based plastics even more eco-friendly than petroleum-based plastics,

bioplastics

Try the CD cases, hold the soy sauce

As if the food-versus-fuel debate weren’t enough already, along comes some new fodder for a potential food-versus-plastics debate: Victor Creative Media’s new rice-based CD/DVD cases. In all fairness, Tech-On! reports that the new plastic cases are made with nonfood rice … though I’m not sure what that