The hype-inducing world of bio-based materials
Today's guest blog is courtesy of Suz Okie, Associate Analyst of the circular economy at GreenBiz.
What's all the buzz about?
I’m taking the reins from Lauren this week to highlight a topic I’ve been keeping my eye on: bio-based materials.
Creating human-made materials from living or biological sources is by no means a new development. In the library of human-made stuff, we’ve been sourcing lumber from trees or textiles from cotton for thousands of years. Yet newly invented bio-based materials are garnering significant hype as of late.
And why not? From electronic displays made from fish scales to sanitary products made from banana fibers, the inspired remix of biological materials into unexpected products can sound like the work of science fiction. And by displacing legacy materials (often with synthetic or fossil fuel origins) these innovations…