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An Agricultural Waste Based Composite to Replace or Reduce the Use of Plastics
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Researchers developed a composite material made from agricultural waste as a partial or full substitute for plastics in certain applications. The bio-based composite avoids the drawbacks of conventional bioplastics like PLA — it is recyclable in existing streams, biodegrades under natural conditions, and does not compete with food crops.
Abstract-BioPlastics such as PLA has a few drawbacks among them incompatible with existing recycling stream and hence classified as "unrecyclable" in many countries; not truly biodegradable in natural conditions since it requires high temperature to decompose (>58 o C); high impact to the environment for it's high carbon footage production process; and competing to our food production for taking the corps as it's feedstock. FPC TM presented in this paper resolves all the above difficulties by using agricultural waste which contains fiber as it's main ingredient, mixed with proprietary Compatiblizer TM which is converted starch without adding any man-made chemicals, so FPC TM is inherently biodegradable and compostable, yet FPC TM can be mixed with almost any plastics in any percentage, making it exhibits no harm to the existing recycling system, such characteristics also make FPC TM to be an excellent binder to create new material from various recycled plastics including ocean plastic waste and textile waste.
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