Notes from the Packaging Laboratory: Polylactic Acid -- An Exciting New Packaging Material

Abstract

Headway is being made with a polymer called Polylactic Acid (PLA), an affordable, recyclable, innovative packaging material made from renewable resources. This document is ABE339, one of a series of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published December 2002. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ae210

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• AE210