(3BL Media/Justmeans) - Bioplastics is a booming business these days, especially in Europe, where the industry that brought us things like biogradable dishes and recyclable plastic is positioned to grow by more than 300 percent by 2018. Made from renewable sources like corn, vegetable starches and cooking oil, these "green" biobased polymers offer an ingenious replacement to petroleum products that take much longer to break down in landfills and are harder to recycle.
But as many scientists will...