Researchers Create Plastic Straws from Potato Starch
Traditional plastic is made with crude oil or natural gas, but bioplastic might not be the safest alternative. Image: Breslavtsev Oleg (Shutterstock)As the war on plastic straws rages on, researchers in Korea have created a bioplastic alternative that is made out of potato starch and citric acid. In a paper paper published in ACS Omega, the team saysthat these new straws are stronger than plastic and more durable than paper.To create the straws, researchers led by Dickens O. Agumba from Inha Univeristy in Korea combined…