Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provided an update on some of its ongoing research in biomass and bioproducts.
In Guelph, Dr. Qiang Liu wants to change how much canola meal is discarded, and he’s got a clear idea of how to turn the waste into a revenue stream—single-use bioplastic film, sheets, and foam for food and non-food packaging.
Dr. Liu and his team are isolating starch in the pulse meal to create starch-based bioplastic, while proteins are being extracted from the canola meal to produce protein-based bioplastic.