How can we create bioplastics out of corn peels and potato?
We can create bioplastic without the corn peels and potato by using other materials. Bioplastics are plastic materials produced from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, straw, woodchips, sawdust, recycled food waste, etc. Bioplastic can be made from agricultural by-products and also from used plastic bottles and other containers using microorganisms.
Is bioplastic effective in terms of quality and durability?
They have some advantages such as lower carbon footprint, independence, energy efficiency, and eco-safety. For the sustainability, recycling systems and production technology may be developed for bioplastics and by-product should be used for their production.
Is there a significant difference between our study and the previous studies?
The significant differences between our study and the previous study are the materials that we used to create bioplastic
Conclusion:
As what the results have shown, the researches therefore conclude that the Bio-Plastic Product can be an alternative plastic product but only on some specific uses. Bio-Plastic Product can be as much as effective like a usual plastic but not as long as the duration of its effectiveness. On that matter, the duration of its decay gives advantage to the nature from the worsening problem with regard to plastic but a disadvantage to the people for their daily use of plastic because of its ealier decaying compared to the normal plastic. Also the price of the Bio-Plastic can be double than the normal plastic in the early distribution of the product but will normalize as the product makers.
In the future, instead of potato and corn starch would be used for manufacturing the plastic and that is because this material has more starch and more polymer chains that form the plastic, so as a result it has higher efficiency than cornstarch, as its efficiency is 90% while the efficiency of the corn starch is 80%.
Another recommendation for the future is to use Sodium Bicarbonate (Na2S2O5). This material is a salt composed of sodium ions and bicarbonate ions, and its recommended to use it as a preservative for the plastic after manufacturing instead of Sodium Metabisulfite because it has higher efficiency and would the plastic bear higher temperatures and pressures without decaying, but unfortunately it wasn’t used because it requires higher temperature to be efficienct with the plastic (350 degree Celcius), while Sodium Metabisulfite doesn’t require high temperature at all.