Where cooler heads prevail :: Advanced Degrees: Plastics of the Future - Trained Bacteria, Potatoes and Fruit Juice are Among the Finalists

Previous:	Advanced Degrees: Pharming, A Bountiful Harvest - The Promise of Edible, Temperature-Stable Vacinnes
Next:	Advanced Degrees: What You Should Know About Freezing Gel Packs

Advanced Degrees: Plastics of the Future - Trained Bacteria, Potatoes and Fruit Juice are Among the Finalists

by Kevin O'Donnell on Thu 20 Mar 2008 12:08 PM CDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

The March Issue of Contract Pharma contains my regular column on cold chain issues but this month takes a slight diversion and explores some of the more promising (and intriguing) developments in bio-based plastics. You can link directly to the article here.

Posted to:

Main Page

Advanced Degrees Column

Comments

Post a comment

Re: Advanced Degrees: Plastics of the Future - Trained Bacteria, Potatoes and Fruit Juice are Among the Finalists

by Anonymous on Thu 27 Mar 2008 11:07 AM CDT | Permanent Link

Hi Kevin,
I'm impressed by these potential new ways of packaging. Certainly a good thing to reduce waste and lower landfill polution. Perhaps a naive question, but what happened to good old glass? Can't it be combined or altered to serve the same purposes? It's main ingredients sure are available, a lot easier to recycle and there would not be competition for arable land.

Post comment:

	Receive comment notifications for this article
Subject:
Comment:

Comment verification:

Please enter the text you see inside the graphic to post your comment:

You are not currently logged in. If you would like your user information to be displayed with your comment, please enter your login information below.