The most popular plastic for 3D printers is PLA – polylactic acid – a plastic that’s either derived from corn starch, inedible plant detritus, or sugar cane, depending where in the world it ...

PLA, a biopolymer derived from renewable resources like corn ... paving the way for eco-friendly and biodegradable materials ...

The monomers can then be reused for manufacturing new plastic items. One wonders if this could also be used in another way – perhaps in a multimaterial printer, allowing PLA to be used for ...

Teijin Frontier’s Biofront polylactic acid (PLA) resin, which biodegrades faster in oceans, rivers and soil compared to ...

Intulon is a US-based company launched in 2009 with the goal of helping humanity through creative and intuitive solutions and ...

Ruth Cardinaels is showing how PLA can be successfully mixed with another ... layers at the interfaces between the different ...

Alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics are emerging, made from everything from banana leaves to tomato skins, ...

It now says the material it uses, known as PLA (polylactic acid), is "not a plastic in the way we believe people most commonly think of plastics". Clipper boxes are still labelled "plastic-free".

The cardboard completely decomposes in three to six weeks, compared to three months for untreated cardboard and hundreds of years for cardboard lined with a kind of plastic known as PLA.