Sustainable solution for product packaging and other applications
Convenience, safety, low price, and good aesthetic qualities are among the major factors that make plastics useful for numerous applications. Synthetic polymers that are produced from petrochemical products have low recovery/reproduction rates and are not easily degraded in the environment. The developed method in the present technology is used to make a biodegradable composite using an aqueous mixture comprised of partially hydrolyzed cellulose in a dissolution media; combing the mixture with a solution of aliphatic polyester in a polar organic solvent;
removing solvent and dissolution media to form a wet biodegradable composite; and drying the wet biodegradable composite to form a dry biodegradable composite.
