The Green Optimistic

Today’s civilized society sometimes uses weird ways of doing things, like packing software serial numbers in cardboard or a lot of plastic. A project, named Bacs, is using bacteria to make an interesting cellulose material for green packaging.

The bacterium is called acetobacter xylinum, and, if fed with sugar, it is able to create a biodegradable paper-like shell, surrounding the object to be packaged into a “fibrous nano-scaled cellulose network”. The innovation brought its designer, Mareike Frenseimer, the third place in the Cargo Packs 2020 contest, funded by Bayer MaterialScience.

Packing things up in biodegradable materials is something that everybody, from users to companies, wishes. Plus, this kind of biodegradable packaging will save a lot of carbon being emitted into the air and a lot of petrol to be used for making the plastics. It’s very interesting – I would have given it the first prize.

Share | Subscribe by Email Subscribe by RSS Follow on Twitter Please help her live. She needs a kidney transplant, and she needs money we don't have ($25,000). A little from many is sometimes a miracle. Please donate any amount through Paypal by clicking the button below. It's not a joke. She is my mother... Click here to find out more.

Related stuff you may like:

New Type of Much More Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Discovered

Korean Scientists Find Quick and Easy Way to Produce Bio-Plastics

Tiniest Solar Cell Invented to Power Microscopic Devices

Thermeleon: Roof Turning from Black to White as Temperature Changes