Renewable Raw Materials and Feedstock for Bioplastics

Achim Raschka, Michael Cams, and Stephan Piotrowski 

To produce bio-based plastics there is a broad spectrum of feedstock options. Today, bio-based plastics are mainly based on sugar, starch, vegetable oil and natural rubber, the so-called 

2 First- and Second-Generation Crops Advantages and Disadvantages 

Industrial biotechnology as a whole, as well as the production of bioplastics, has given rise to an ongoing public, political and industrial debate on the competition between food, feed and industrial markets for agricultural raw materials, with wide-reaching implications. This has created a lot of confusion and insecurity within the bioplastics industry. For example, the 

Bio-Based Plastics Materials and Applications, First Edition. Edited by Stephan Kabasci. 2014 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley Sons, Ltd. 

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