Canadian research team wants to use seafood waste to make bio-plastic
22/09/2016
The key component is chitin, a strong, flexible, biodegradable material found in the exoskeletons of arthropods. Commenting on the project, the university’s Professor Mark MacLachlan said: “Shells are a large waste product from the food industry, shrimp shells and crab shells especially. But the chemistry needed to transform them into something useful is not too difficult.”
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