Plant-based bottles, made from sustainable plant sugars, which would decompose in a year when composted, are being developed by renewable chemicals company Avantium. The Netherlands-based biochemicals company plans to break down sustainable plant sugars from corn, wheat or beets into simple chemical structures that can then be rearranged to form a new plant-based plastic. The plant plastic, which is designed to be resilient enough to … Continue reading Plant-based bottles, made from sustainable plant sugars, could be on supermarket shelves by 2023