{"id":893,"date":"2024-07-16T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2024-07-16T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:40:00","slug":"barley-isnt-just-good-for-beer-now-it-can-be-used-to-make-biodegradable-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Barley Isn\u2019t Just Good for Beer; Now It Can Be Used to Make Biodegradable Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Recycling has done little to diminish the amount of plastic waste that flows into the environment. As the consequences of plastic pollution have become more evident, many have set out to find alternative materials that perform as well as synthetic polymer-based materials that can safely degrade in the environment.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve recently seen solutions based on organic waste material like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/lobster-plastic-clawing-its-way-into-becoming-a-new-bio-med-material\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seafood shells<\/a>\u00a0or from highly renewable resources like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/get-ready-for-more-seaweed-packaging-sway-nabs-top-prize-in-tom-ford-plastic-innovation-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seaweed<\/a>. As it turns out, with a little bit of science, the components required to make durable plastics that also naturally biodegrade are abundant in nature, and researchers in Denmark have now made breakthroughs in using barley to create an alternative to conventional plastics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/barley-isnt-just-good-for-beer-now-it-can-be-used-to-make-biodegradable-plastic\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling has done little to diminish the amount of plastic waste that flows into the environment. As the consequences of plastic pollution have become more evident, many have set out to find alternative materials that perform as well as synthetic polymer-based materials that can safely degrade in the environment. We\u2019ve recently seen solutions based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[540],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-barley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}