Bioplastics: pros & cons and are they the future?
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By Ben Hardman
Conventional plastic is one of the most successful products ever made. From an industrial perspective at least. Its use and versatility are unrivalled across the world.
But it has come with a heavy environmental cost.
Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down. Maybe even thousands. We don’t truly know because every single piece of plastic that has ever been made still exists today in one form or another. As it does slowly break down, tiny fragments of plastic are released into the environment. These are called microplastics.
Microplastics have been found everywhere from the Antarctic to the world’s deepest ocean trench and even in human blood for the first time ever.
It’s clear that we need to move away from traditional plastic. One prospect stepping into the light is a bio-based plastic.
Could bioplastics be the answer the environment is looking for?
What are bioplastics and what are they made from?
Bioplastics represent a movement away from plastic made with fos...
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