Scientists create natural plastics for everyday packaging

Photo caption: Edward Attenborough and Dr Leonie van ’t Hag are creating smarter bioplastics for packaging and medical films to cut down single-use waste. Photo credit: Monash University. News release by Monash University. Monash.edu – October 3, 2025. Research article: Springer Nature: BMC.

Researchers have transformed food waste sugars into natural plastic films that could one day replace petroleum-based packaging, offering compostable alternatives to commonly used plastics for food and agricultural films like silage wrap. […]

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