Innovation

Microplastics, environmental depletion, waste, pollution, health crisis. All words taking over today’s biggest headlines and news outlets. These concerns do contain harsh truths. Plastics are a huge environmental issue because of their long-life spans and centuries needed to decay. Figure 1. Plastic wasteland piled high with plastic products (Wasteland, n.d.). Therefore bioplastics, synthetic plastics made from biomass with biodegradable properties, are becoming a growing to