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Plastic obtained from corn cobs: Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne have developed a new method by which agricultural waste can be converted into plastic.
Plastic produced this way has up to a 75 percent lower carbon footprint than conventional plastics, EPFL announced on Monday.
97 percent nuclear efficiency
The research team, led by Jeremy Luterbacher, presented the production method called polyamide in the journal “Nature Sustainability”. Polyamides are a class of plastics that include nylon. Its main raw material is oil.
Lausanne researchers use the chemical sugar structure obtained from agricultural waste such as wood or corn cobs as the main raw material. According to EPFL, the process achieves atomic efficiency of 97 percent, meaning that almost all of the starting material is used in the final product.
The plastic revealed in the study has properties that rival its fossil counterparts, the researchers wrote. The researchers also estimate that the production costs of the new bioplastic will be similar to the production of Nylon 66, which is widely used today (SDA).
Source : Blick
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