Gale Seiler interviewed Dr. David Grewell from the Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering at ISU, where he is also Director of the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2). They spoke about the problems caused by plastics in the environment and efforts to use plant proteins to make biorenewable, biodegradable plastics. Dr. Grewell shared several interesting success stories from this line of development. He provided the photo of plastic washed up on a beach in Bali during a recent visit he made there.
Originally broadcast 7/27/2018
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