Could this bioplastic be the environmental cure for our Styrofoam woes?

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1. TLDR:

   Scientists at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) report a bioplastic that degrades even faster than paper in seawater. Over a 36-week-long test the foam version of a bioplastic called cellulose diacetate (CDA) lost about 70 percent of its original mass, while the Styrofoam showed zero degradation. “The degradation rates of the CDA foams were about 15 times that of solid CDA and the fastest of any plastic reported in the ocean”.

   Research Article Link: [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c05822](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c05822)

2. Better would be reduce consumption and reduce single-use materials in general. Any word on how this breaks down? What chemical constituents are left?

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