Ingenious Materials
Imagine a biopolymer used to make everything from packaging and consumer goods to fibers for apparel, furnishings and home and garden derived from renewable resources instead of oil. A biopolymer that offers more disposal options and is more environmentally friendly to manufacture than traditional petroleum-based plastics. Derived from 100% annually renewable resources such as plants, our product, Ingeo™ natural plastic, made from NatureWorks’ biopolymer, is the world’s first polymer showing a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Which will have to be supplied by plants grown in mass quantities, meaning corn, that is already earmarked for food and ethanol, that is fertilized with ammonium nitrate that got it’s hydrogen from natural gas via the Haber process that sucks a ton of fossil fuels to make enough heat an pressure to crack the hydrogen blah blah blah
You are very correct. Believe it or not when it comes to packaging foam is really the best for the environment. It takes very little resources and energy to produce, and when thrown in a landfill it is a stable as a rock. This means it will not break down or biodegrade. When things biodegrade in landfills they give off CO2 and methane gas which are both greenhouse gases, not to mention the toxins that leech into the soil (drinking water)