A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fiber from sugarbeet waste—a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature—has been created at the University of Copenhagen. In the long term, the researchers hope that their invention can help put the brakes on plastic pollution while reducing the climate footprint of plastic production.
This is the dumbest shit out, we already have fuck loads of biodegradable plastic. Now we have highly allergenic gluten plastic that a sizeable portion of the population is highly allergic to