A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fiber from sugarbeet waste—a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature—has been created at the University of Copenhagen. In the long term, the researchers hope that their invention can help put the brakes on plastic pollution while reducing the climate footprint of plastic production.
Just consider how incredibly toxic gluten is for a lot of people, this wheat and barley plastic is going to literally poison a sizable portion of the population