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Industrial uses for crops: Markets for bioplastics
Summary
Sector:
Cereals & Oilseeds
Project code:
PR450
Date:
01 January 2001 - 01 January 2001
Funders:
AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds.
Project leader:
Myles Barker and Richard Safford HGCA, Caledonia House, 223 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9HY
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Executive Summary
Plastics are essential and are used in coatings, construction, containers, furniture, packaging and textiles. They provide us with a means of protecting goods and chemicals, prolonging the shelf-life of foodstuffs and waterproofing to name but a few applications. However, we currently rely heavily upon fossil fuel as a feedstock and energy source for plastic manufacture. This situation is not sustainable because crude oil stocks are finite. In addition, the manufacture of fossil fuel-based plastics (petroplastics) is energy intensive and results in the emission of large quantities of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming.
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