bioplastics Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:06:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tomato-Powered Heinz and Ford Make Tomato-Based Bioplastics for Lighter Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heinz-ford-team-make-tomato-based-bioplastics-lighter-vehicles-20140615/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heinz-ford-team-make-tomato-based-bioplastics-lighter-vehicles-20140615/#respond Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:06:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47944 Heinz, the famous company, whose products make it to (almost) every single barbeque party, is now teaming up with Ford, the company, whose cars are present at (almost) every single junction, to make bioplastics. The tomato ketchup makers will give the input material, which is the unwanted tomato skin leftovers from the production process, while […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heinz-ford-team-make-tomato-based-bioplastics-lighter-vehicles-20140615/feed/ 0 47944 Making Bioplastics Sexy: Enticing a New Generation to Recycle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/making-bioplastics-sexy-enticing-a-new-generation-to-recycle-20121208/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/making-bioplastics-sexy-enticing-a-new-generation-to-recycle-20121208/#respond Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:27:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29566 The Perpetual Plastic Project has launched their new campaign at the Netherlands music festival A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise (Lowands, for short). Their message is simple: recycling bioplastics is something everyone can and should do. Lowlands festival-goers got to see firsthand what The Perpetual Plastic Project recycling system was all about. They were able to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/making-bioplastics-sexy-enticing-a-new-generation-to-recycle-20121208/feed/ 0 29566 Cereplast's Algae-Based Bioplastics Reduce Petroleum Use by 50% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cereplasts-algae-based-bioplastics-reduce-petroleum-use-by-50-20091103/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cereplasts-algae-based-bioplastics-reduce-petroleum-use-by-50-20091103/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:21:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5157 Cereplast has already developed some new technologies before, being able to make plastic from renewable materials such as corn starch, tapioca, wheat and potatoes.

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