- Plastic bag that dissolves in water or breaks down into
compost has been awarded one of the top Australian science prizes.
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- Plantic Technologies' cornstarch-derived
"plastic"
bag was awarded the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Industry.
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- The bag is safe for use in food packaging and can be
moulded like common petrochemical plastics but is completely biodegradable.
When it is buried in a compost heap, worms and bacteria will convert it
to compost within a month. It is also water soluble.
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- Plantic plastic is already used by UK confectioner
Cadbury
Schweppes for its packaging trays, and other European confectioners are
testing the product.
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- http://just-food.com/news_detail.asp?art=58368&dm=yes
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