But plant-based ‘bioplastics’ are not new. The first man-made plastic was made in 1862 using cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, pre-dating the petroleum-based plastics that ...

In hydrophobic environments, such as polypropylene, cellulose nanofibrils prefer to agglomerate rather than disperse. Perhaps the best example was reported by John Simonsen (Oregon State ...

They found, for example, levels as high as 30% to 40% in ... The research team suggests that because the human gut still ...