Multiple choice

Bioplastics are the form of plastics derived from renewable biomass sources. Which of the following bioplastics are produced from the cane sugar?

  1. Starch-based plastics

  2. Cellulose bioplastics

  3. Polylactic acid (PLA) plastics

  4. Polyamide 11
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a transparent plastic produced from cane sugar or glucose. It not only resembles conventional petrochemical mass plastics (like PE or PP) in its characteristics, but  can also be processed easily on standard equipment that already exists for the production of conventional plastics.

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