Biodegradable plastics from potato waste double savings to environment

Coleman, R

Title: Biodegradable plastics from potato waste double savings to environment

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Plastics can be made from starchy food waste. This article describes a method by which these plastics break down into harmless chemicals when exposed to sunlight, water or bacteria. Degradable trash bags and agricultural mulch films can replace some of the millions of pounds of nondegradable plastics used each year. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory developed that involves enzymatically converting potato waste into glucose, fermenting the glucose to lactic acid using bacteria, and then using the lactic acid to construct fully degradable plastics.

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Coleman, R ^[1]

Argonne National Laboratory, IL (USA)

Publication Date:: Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI Identifier:: 5949285

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Agricultural Engineering; (USA)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 71:6; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-1458

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; RESOURCE POTENTIAL; PLASTICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIODEGRADATION; DECOMPOSITION; MARKET; PHOTOLYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MATERIALS; ORGANIC WASTES; PETROCHEMICALS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; WASTES; 290500* - Energy Planning & Policy- Research, Development, Demonstration, & Commercialization

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  title        = {Biodegradable plastics from potato waste double savings to environment},

  author       = {Coleman, R},

  abstractNote = {Plastics can be made from starchy food waste. This article describes a method by which these plastics break down into harmless chemicals when exposed to sunlight, water or bacteria. Degradable trash bags and agricultural mulch films can replace some of the millions of pounds of nondegradable plastics used each year. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory developed that involves enzymatically converting potato waste into glucose, fermenting the glucose to lactic acid using bacteria, and then using the lactic acid to construct fully degradable plastics.},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},

  month        = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}

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