‘Vegan Spider Silk’ Provides Sustainable Alternative to Single-Use Plastics
10th June 2021
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, created a polymer film by mimicking the properties of spider silk, one of the strongest materials in nature. The new material is as strong as many common plastics in use today and could replace plastic in many common household products.
They had to put ‘vegan’ in the headline just so that the Right People would notice.