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Banana paper is a type of paper created from banana plant bark or banana peel fibers. Banana paper has a lower density, higher stiffness, higher disposability, higher renewability, and higher tensile strength compared to traditional paper. [ 1 ]
Apeel Sciences is an American food technology company based in Goleta, California.Its edible coating product Apeel or Edipeel [1] can make avocados, citrus and other types of fruit last twice as long as usual by using a tasteless edible coating, and reduces food loss and waste as well as reliance on single-use plastic packaging.
The Milan-based company 3D-prints office accessories and furniture from food waste.
2016: An experiment finds that a car bumper that passes regulation can be made from nano-cellulose based bioplastic biomaterials using banana peels. (Hossain, Ibrahim, Aleissa 2016) [ 105 ] 2017: A new proposal for bioplastics made from Lignocellulosics resources (dry plant matter).
Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp , but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts , which are not named peels since they are not peeled off by hand or peeler, but rather shells because of their hardness.
Tree-free paper, also known as no tree paper, offers an alternative to traditional wood-pulp paper [1] due to its unique raw material [2] composition. This type of paper is considered more eco-friendly especially when evaluating its entire life cycle. Sources of fiber for tree-free paper [3] [4] [5] Tree-free paper fibers are derived from ...
Paper 2–5 months Cotton T-shirt 6 months Orange peels 6 months Tree leaves 1 year Wool socks 1–5 years Plastic-coated paper milk cartons 5 years Leather shoes: 25–40 years Nylon fabric 30–40 years Tin cans 50–100 years Aluminium cans 80–100 years Glass bottles 1 million years Styrofoam cup: 500 years to forever Plastic bags
Comparisons have been made between stone paper and traditional paper for applications like book printing in Europe. [10] If stone paper replaced coated and uncoated graphic printing stock in Europe, it could potentially reduce CO₂ emissions by 25% to 62%, water consumption by 89% to 99.2%, and wood usage by 100% compared to current European consumption, which is mostly of virgin paper.