{"id":545710,"date":"2010-04-28T06:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2010-04-28T06:54:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:54:45","slug":"wrap-your-sandwich-in-sustainable-bioplastic-from-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545710","title":{"rendered":"Wrap Your Sandwich in Sustainable Bioplastic from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9048\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/28\/wrap-your-sandwich-in-sustainable-bioplastic-from-algae\/bioplastic-from-algae\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9048\" title=\"bioplastic from algae\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/bioplastic-from-algae.jpg\" alt=\"Cereplast is ready to commercialize its process for making plastics from algae\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Not this year but maybe next, that plastic wrap in your kitchen drawer could be made of sustainable bioplastic from algae instead of petroleum.\u00a0 Bioplastics manufacturer\u00a0 <a title=\"cereplast website\" href=\"http:\/\/cereplast.com\" >Cereplast, Inc.<\/a> has just announced that it should be ready to take its new <a title=\"cereplast press release on businesswire.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100427005122&amp;newsLang=en\" >Cereplast Algae Plastics<\/a> to market by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/11\/02\/us-company-transforms-algae-into-bioplastic-could-slash-petroleum-use-by-50\/\" >Cereplast&#8217;s move into algae<\/a> could make a huge difference in the bioplastics industry, which until now has drawn its feedstock mainly from conventional food crops like corn and potatoes.\u00a0 Among other benefits, the use of algae opens up the possibility of siting carbon-consuming algae &#8220;farms&#8221; where they can neutralize greenhouse gas emissions from factories or power plants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/28\/wrap-your-sandwich-in-sustainable-bioplastic-from-algae\/#more-9015\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not this year but maybe next, that plastic wrap in your kitchen drawer could be made of sustainable bioplastic from algae instead of petroleum.\u00a0 Bioplastics manufacturer\u00a0 Cereplast, Inc. has just announced that it should be ready to take its new Cereplast Algae Plastics to market by the end of 2010. Cereplast&#8217;s move into algae could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}