Green plastics? Yes please! Bioplastics manufacturer Cereplast has developed a way to produce plastics with algae. By using dehydrated algae who’s natural oils have been extracted for fuel, Cereplast has managed to develop plastic products with properties very similar to traditional polymers.
While developing the plastic, Cereplast is also determining how this plastic mix could be recycled effectively.
Using algae wouldn’t affect food crops the way other bioplastics made from corn and starches could if they were massively scaled up. The process complements algae fuel production instead of competing with it.
[Cereplast founder and CEO Frederic Scheer] said that artificially-grown high-yield algae crops can be harvested after two months.
This would mean that even in small batches, the cost per pound of algae plastic is expected to beat out traditional plastics, too.
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i wonder if these algae plastics are biodegradable?