Biodegradable Plastics

07/15/2023 - "Recycling biodegradable plastics before their end-of-life (EOL) degradation further enhances their sustainability and reduces their carbon footprint. "
02/15/2023 - "We also discuss the relevance of biodegradable plastics for selected applications with respect to their use and end of life. "
02/15/2023 - "Discussion about suitable applications for biodegradable plastics regarding their sources, uses and end of life."
01/01/2023 - "Biodegradable plastics, if they are not properly managed at their end-of-life, can have the same hazardous environmental consequences as conventional plastics. "
05/01/2022 - "The intensification of separate biowastes collection in most European countries has also contributed to the development of biodegradable plastics, and the subject of their end-of-life is becoming a key issue. "

06/25/2016 - "Overall, a series of challenges has still been faced by the biodegradable plastic film, mainly including improving the quality of biodegradable plastic products, such as tensile strength, flexibility, improving the controllability of rupture and degradation, enhancing the ability of increasing soil temperature and preserving soil moisture, and to satisfy the demand of crops production with mulching. "

05/01/2013 - "These newly designed biological systems have great potential for the development of cheaper drugs, green fuels, biodegradable plastics, and targeted cancer therapies over the coming years. "

10/01/2013 - "Tomato pith necrosis was observed on 2.7% of tomatoes grown in rows covered with black polyethylene, various biodegradable plastics, and an experimental spunbond poly(lactic) acid agricultural mulch in high tunnel and open field experimental plots, in western Washington in 2011. "

01/01/2023 - "Oligomer nanoparticle release from a biodegradable plastic triggers acute gut inflammation."