Plant residues enable four times cheaper bioplastics

Every year Europe generates? 192 million tons of fruit & vegetable waste. In Spain,? some 90 million. In order to give a new use for these products, an increasing number of initiatives use chemicals? to generate a new object of these renewable raw materials.Bel?n Tobalina reports that the Spanish company Tecnalia has taken a step further: leading an international project, TRANSBIO, with which develop detergents, films for food products and dietary supplements, based on remnants of fruit and vegetables.