{"id":200973,"date":"2022-09-21T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=200973"},"modified":"2022-09-21T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:48:00","slug":"iit-roorkee-researcher-develops-technology-for-biodegradable-polybags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/iit-roorkee-researcher-develops-technology-for-biodegradable-polybags\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Roorkee researcher develops technology for biodegradable polybags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dehradun, Sep 20 (PTI): An Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee professor has developed a technology to make biodegradable polybags, the institute said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPP Kundu, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, has developed a thermoplastic starch that will be blended with Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) to make LDPE biodegradable,\u201d the press release read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India produces starch-producing vegetables and foodgrains in plenty such as potato, rice, wheat, and maize or corn starch along with other starches that are available in plenty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IIT Roorkee has transferred this technology to Noida-based Agrsar Innovatives LLP for manufacturing biodegradable polybags in large quantities. The firm will commercially utilise the present technology for manufacturing biodegradable polybags in large quantities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such technology can prove to be of great use in a country considering a ban on polybags.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A countrywide ban has already been imposed on plastic carry bags having a thickness less than 75 microns with effect from 30 September 2021. From 31 December, bags with a thickness less than 120 microns will also be banned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe developed technology is expected to have immense value in view of the large quantities of starch produced in India and the environment-friendly nature of the solution,\u201d Director of IIT Roorkee Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehradun, Sep 20 (PTI): An Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee professor has developed a technology to make biodegradable polybags, the institute said in a statement on Tuesday. \u201cPP Kundu, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, has developed a thermoplastic starch that will be blended with Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) to make LDPE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}