What is plant-based plastic?
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Plastic made from plants. The most common is made from corn starch. However, some is made from polymers derived from plant cellulose and oils. The advantages are that it comes from a renewable resource, requires less energy to convert from the raw plant stage, breaks down in landfills in a fraction of the time. Disadvantages are that more energy is required to get to the raw plant stage, is overall more expensive to produce (given all energy inputs), is not suited to long term storage. There is also the fact that to really make it economically feasible, plants would need to be bioengineered which presents a plethora of problems given public sentiment about GMO's.
