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Scientists Developed a Plant-Based Alternative to The Plastic Inside Your Coffee Cup
The cellulose-based coating held up against boiling water, oils and solvents, researchers said, and could cut microplastic shedding from disposable cups.
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Scientists Developed a Plant-Based Alternative to The Plastic Inside Your Coffee Cup
Plastic-lined containers, like coffee cups, are convenient, cheap, and heat- and water-resistant, so they're everywhere. This is appreciated when they keep our beloved early morning pick-me-up from transforming into a wet wad that crumples in our grip and embarrassingly stains our finest trousers. But it's also a problem, because plastic-lined containers are harder to recycle and, as mentioned, they end up everywhere.
·Canberra, Australia
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Researchers say they have finally succeeded in creating a plant-based coating that could solve the serious problem of disposable coffee cups.
Cellulose coating created at the University of Waterloo resisted the wear test that made plastic linings of cups release particles.
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