Global warming is slowly developing into a vital threat to our planet. The question in the end usually comes down to two choices faster development and better technology or saving planet Earth for the future generations. Mobile phones too have reportedly added a strain on the environment with their widespread use of plastic.
NEC though has come up with a bioplastic crafted with cashew nut shells. Sounding bizarre, the company has indeed developed a bioplastic by amalgamating cellulose, derived from plant stems with cardanol a chief constituent of cashew nut shells. This resulted in creating the plastic strong enough to support electronic devices like phones. Created from non-edible plant resources it has a high plant component ratio of over 70 percent.
Usage of such plastic will result in minimizing the exhaustion of petroleum resources and assuaging global warming. This plastic is made from non edible parts of the plant, thus ensuring that the future mobile phone is not made up of some poor person’s food. The company’s future plans include further research and development in making this plastic a mass produced product. Also improvising on it to ensure it suits a variety of electronic devices by 2013 is part of the future plan too.
The NEC developed bioplastic will be officially explained at The Chemical Society of Japan / Kanto Branch meeting in University of Tsukuba, on August 31, 2010.
NEC though has come up with a bioplastic crafted with cashew nut shells. Sounding bizarre, the company has indeed developed a bioplastic by amalgamating cellulose, derived from plant stems with cardanol a chief constituent of cashew nut shells. This resulted in creating the plastic strong enough to support electronic devices like phones. Created from non-edible plant resources it has a high plant component ratio of over 70 percent.
Usage of such plastic will result in minimizing the exhaustion of petroleum resources and assuaging global warming. This plastic is made from non edible parts of the plant, thus ensuring that the future mobile phone is not made up of some poor person’s food. The company’s future plans include further research and development in making this plastic a mass produced product. Also improvising on it to ensure it suits a variety of electronic devices by 2013 is part of the future plan too.
The NEC developed bioplastic will be officially explained at The Chemical Society of Japan / Kanto Branch meeting in University of Tsukuba, on August 31, 2010.
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