date:Apr 27, 2012
US-based company NatureWorks, which produces more than 90% of global polylactic acid (PLA), told FoodProductionDaily.com the paper from the University of Massachusetts contained erroneous data about the bio-based plastic.
The research, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production,raised a number of environmental and occupational health and safety concerns about the production of a raft of biobased plastics - including PLA, starch (pure thermoplastic starch: TPS), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs),