{"id":106871,"date":"2024-10-12T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/?p=106871"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T07:37:22","slug":"the-polymeer-project-transforming-brewers-waste-into-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/the-polymeer-project-transforming-brewers-waste-into-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"The POLYMEER project: Transforming brewers&#8217; waste into bioplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>Iranpolymer\/Baspar <\/strong><\/em>The project will transform BSG into bioplastics to differentiate the material solutions that have the potential to replace traditional plastics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, bioplastics represent\u00a0only 1.5% of global plastic production, and it&#8217;s not projected to grow to satisfy the market needs.\u00a0Brewers\u2019 spent grain (BSG)\u00a0is rich in fibre and protein and is mostly used as low-value animal feed or discarded in landfills, leading to environmental issues. BSG could be converted into feedstock for bioplastics, but the limited applications available today and the lack of scalability interfere with this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">POLYMEER aims to\u00a0develop new bio-based polymers, copolymers and polymer blends based on BSG exploiting green, waste-minimised processes. This will create alternatives to traditional plastics, which will then undergo a chemical design to ensure that they have the specific properties for three applications. These are mulch films suitable for agricultural use, textiles for the automotive industry, and tertiary packaging films for industrial purposes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The project&#8217;s focus over 48 months will be to\u00a0optimise\u00a0the conversion of BSG into bio-based building blocks, generating high-performance bioplastics that\u00a0can replace traditional materials. It will also assess the life cycle sustainability, cost-effectiveness\u00a0and scalability of these solutions\u00a0while ensuring that the\u00a0key stakeholders are\u00a0market-ready and comply with regulations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The project is supported by an international consortium, including universities, research centres and companies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>interplasinsights<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranpolymer\/Baspar The project will transform BSG into bioplastics to differentiate the material solutions that have the potential to replace traditional plastics. Today, bioplastics represent\u00a0only 1.5% of global plastic production, and it&#8217;s not projected to grow to satisfy the market needs.\u00a0Brewers\u2019 spent grain (BSG)\u00a0is rich in fibre and protein and is mostly used as low-value animal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[57842,1018,2214,57843,57844],"class_list":["post-106871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-bio-based-polymers","tag-bioplastics","tag-packaging-films","tag-polymeer","tag-polymer-blends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}