{"id":16370,"date":"2013-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130118-04n"},"modified":"2013-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T22:00:00","slug":"biofase-makes-bioplastic-from-avocado-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biofase-makes-bioplastic-from-avocado-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofase Makes Bioplastic From Avocado Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The huge quantity of pits discarded by the Mexican avocado food product industry is about to become one of the latest feedstocks for bioplastics. The Mexican company Biofase has developed a 100 percent biodegradable, compostable polymer made from avocado pits and is offering the polymer for use as either resins or additives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve discussed other bioplastics and biofuels that use agricultural-industrial waste as feedstocks. The latest one means companies making avocado products in Mexico will no longer need to pay third parties to haul away the pits. Scott Munguia, co-founder of Biofase, told FreshFruitPortal.com that the Mexican avocado industry discards 30,000 metric tons of pits each month.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designnews.com\/document.asp?doc_id=257242\" >www.designnews.com\/document.asp?doc_id=257242<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: monomer, Biocom, Bioblend, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, cellulose polymers, plastic bags<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The huge quantity of pits discarded by the Mexican avocado food product industry is about to become one of the latest feedstocks for bioplastics. The<\/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":[4725,4726],"class_list":["post-16370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biofase","supplier-tecnologico-de-monterrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370","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=16370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16370"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}