Foto: Roelof Kleis The biobased economy is more tangible than most people think. Now WUR researchers will be demonstrating this in Wageningen. ‘More and more products based on natural resources are found in shops,’ says scientist Harriëtte Bos (Food & Biobased Research). ‘But ordinary people don’t realize they are biobased.’
The European Union wants to change this with the BLOOM project. On Sunday, Bos made a presentation on behalf of WUR in the public library. Typical WUR contributions to the biobased economy are the development of plastics based on polylactic acid (PLA) and the use of fibres from natural waste streams in textiles. Everyone knows PLA foil as the crinkly plastic that’s used as packaging. ‘My presentation will be about the things we can make from renewable resources that look like the familiar petroleum-based products,’ says Bos.
