ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,730, issued on July 21.
"Method for obtaining plastic admixture material and bioplastic material from bread waste" was invented by Hatice Busra Koksal (Istanbul).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the relevant technical field, cellulose-based wastes or agricultural wastes are used as raw materials in the production of environmentally friendly bioplastics or plastic admixture materials. The cost spent on a product is high to recycle agricultural wastes into these said final products. In addition, cellulose-based raw materials such as olive seeds are not as suitable for polymerization as starches. In this context, in the invention, starc...