While there are hundreds of uses for corn, from the basic food to ethanol, there is a new corn product that may change the way we dispose of plastic products. The new innovation in plastics is that they are now able to be produced from corn, which makes the plastic biodegradable. These plastics will not be able to be used on items that last a long time, because you wouldn't want your cell phone to start to degrade on you.
The picture shown above is a printer from HP that uses a plastic that is designed to last the lifetime of the printer before it starts to break down. This could mean a change in the way we dispose of plastics, and what once took 10's of thousands of years to break down, now takes but a few years. This is great news for the environment, and hopefully these plastics will be more readily available very soon.
Looks like were going to need some more corn to be grown, to support the plastics industry this time.
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Future of Corn is.... Plastic?
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That's pretty awesome. So when you say that the printer has a certain life-span, did they make it to last a certain amount of time? Or does it just last that long and they had no control over it? Cuz it would be sweet if they could actually control how long the corn-plastic lasts.
They don't say specifically but as it appears. The printer is built knowing that it will most likely only last for a certain time period. Therefore they design the plastic to last the same period of time as the printer. Thats what they describe it as at least
Hey rockey scientist -
You posted your last comment at 11:10 am today you should not have been working on your blog.
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No idea what you're talking about... I see no time!! ;)
Oooh, gotchya. That's still pretty sweet.
Hey!!!!
Nice move rockey scientist,
took the time stamp off the comment posting
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