In early 2012, the Mexican company Biofase announced its determination to pursue an innovative project to create biodegradable plastic resins. The key player in the project is the avocado, a fruit everyone knows. Lead chemical engineer and project founder Scott Munguia gave an interview to www.freshfruitportal.com, sharing some interesting details about the innovative project, which provides a better way to dispose of discarded avocado seeds. "Bioplastic technology has been around for about 15 years, but through my research I came to the conclusion that there was a certain problem that people had been trying, unsuccessfully, to solve using food products such as potatoes and corn," Scott Munguia said in his talk. Bioplastic technology should be based on green products, which means avocado seeds are perfectly suited to the role of the main and, importantly, renewable raw material for this process. What's more, Mexico is known as the world's largest avocado producer. The seeds used to get thrown away, and today we've found another use for them.
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