Wooden Shopping Bags – A Sustainable Substitute for Plastic Ones
Wooden Shopping Bags - A Sustainable Substitute for Plastic Ones
Bio-based materials are versatile and have the same colour and scent as wood, providing a sustainable substitute for the fossil-based products that now rule the plastics sector.
A Swedish business has developed a method for turning a byproduct of the forestry sector into a bioplastic that can be utilised to create everything from cellphones to shopping bags.
The main component of wood, lignin, is used by the bio-based substance. Normally, paper and pulp factories discard and burn this wood. Using a process invented by the company named Lignin Industries, this waste lignin powder may be converted into a biobased substance known as Renol.
Renol is a sustainable substitute for the fossil fuel-based polymers that now ...