{"id":65925,"date":"2019-08-27T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=65925"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:24:12","slug":"scientist-creates-bioplastic-from-mango-peels-and-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/scientist-creates-bioplastic-from-mango-peels-and-seaweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Creates Bioplastic from Mango Peels and Seaweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lego took a huge step toward becoming more sustainable this year by introducing elements made out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/this-new-lego-ideas-tree-house-is-legos-most-sustainable-set-ever-1797007\/\" target=\"_blank\">plastic derived from sugarcane.<\/a> A Filipino scientist has come up with another way to create bioplastic.<\/p>\n<p>Denxybel Montinola, who is just 23 and a recent graduate of the University of San Carlos, says that his gears started turning when he saw a video on Facebook. In it, a researcher was explaining how he produced a bioplastic using only seaweed.<\/p>\n<p>Montinola wanted to see if he could \u201crecreate [that] invention and take it up a notch.\u201d Ultimately he decided to add mango peels to the mix. Why mangoes? His home country is one of the world\u2019s top producers, shipping more than 820,000 tons of the fruit every year.<\/p>\n<p>A good number of those mangoes end up getting peeled and packaged. That creates a ready supply of very cheap \u2014 and very useful \u2014 ingredients for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cc.zdtc.app\/v1\/otc\/05YcxvrJv7bM0tkN3uaIbHd?veneer=dynamic&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen_in%2Farticle%2F3k3x75%2Ffilipino-scientist-bioplastic-mango-seaweed\" target=\"_blank\">kicked-up bioplastic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Montinola told his hometown paper the Cebu Daily News that his mango-seaweed blend is \u201cmore robust and flexible and can mimic the mechanical strength of the conventional plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it perform better than traditional plastic, but it\u2019s also not going to wind up contaminating our rivers, streams, soil\u2026 or digestive systems. This bioplastic is completely water-soluble and no toxic chemicals are released as it disintegrates.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, then, it\u2019s not going to make a suitable food or beverage container, but there are plenty of other tasks for which it\u2019s ideal.<\/p>\n<p>It could be a perfect scaffold material for doctors, says Montinola. That\u2019s a possibility he may investigate further as he completes an internship in Taiwan at the Academia Sinica\u2019s\u00a0Institute of Biological Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Another that way warrant a closer look is as a material to stop localized bleeding. One day it could help save lives and help save the planet at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego took a huge step toward becoming more sustainable this year by introducing elements made out of plastic derived from sugarcane. A Filipino scientist has come up with another way to create bioplastic. Denxybel Montinola, who is just 23 and a recent graduate of the University of San Carlos, says that his gears started turning [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[5847,7105],"supplier":[16011],"class_list":["post-65925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioplastics","tag-packaging","supplier-academia-sinica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65925","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65925"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=65925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}