{"id":15324,"date":"2011-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110808-01n"},"modified":"2011-08-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:00:00","slug":"plastic-from-the-wood-environmentally-friendly-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/plastic-from-the-wood-environmentally-friendly-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic from the Wood: Environmentally Friendly Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>As fossil fuel supplies dwindle and as consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly products, various companies have begun to commercialize sustainable or green polymers. The most successful bio-renewable synthetic plastic is poly(lactic acid) (PLA), which can be found in various packaging applications. However, drawbacks to PLA include: a limited functional temperature range; the utilization of a food source for its starting material (corn and other starches); and a reliance on batchwise fermentation technology for feedstock conversion.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stephen A. Miller and co-workers (University of Florida, Gainesville) now report polyalkylenehydroxybenzoates (PAHBs) derived from lignin, the second most abundant polymer on earth that is a low-value by-product of the paper pulping and cellulosic bio-ethanol industries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.materialsviews.com\/details\/news\/1310675\/Plastic_from_the_Wood_Environmentally_Friendly_Packaging.html\" >www.materialsviews.com\/details\/news\/1310675\/Plastic_from_the_Wood_Environmentally_Friendly_Packaging.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: polylactid acid, microorganisms, paper pulping, composting, fermentation<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>As fossil fuel supplies dwindle and as consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly products, various companies have begun to commercialize sustainable or green polymers. The most<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2608],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}