bioplastic

[bahy-oh-plas-tik]

noun

plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.

Origin of bioplastic

First recorded in 1980–85; bio- + plastic

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Examples from the Web for bioplastic

Contemporary Examples of bioplastic

He recently received federal funding to research PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate), a bioplastic made through bacterial fermentation.
Your Favorite Facewash Is Hurting Nemo
Alexa C. Kurzius
June 18, 2014

Historical Examples of bioplastic

Then the specimen was inverted and the matrix removed from the opposite side; this has not been covered with Bioplastic.
A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas
Theodore H. Eaton
The bioplastic spinners and weavers work as obediently for the one master-ego as the other.
Life: Its True Genesis
R. W. Wright