A Brief History of Bio-Based Plastics

Looking at the historic development of plastics production, we can see that in the beginning it was not driven by using fossil raw materials. Quite the contrary - a lot of thermosets, elastomers 

In parallel to the upcoming environmental protection movements of the 1980s, the awareness of the need for replacing fossil-based raw materials increased. The use of starch for the production of bioplastic materials was investigated and the first materials based on this research 

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