go Bio~!

the haus tv has gone kaput since this morning ...
as i got out from my room still groggy, i saw dad poking at the tv set's power switch.. to nil response. darn... this is not good. when house appliances go dead, it's always not a good sign. and it has had to be the television this time. of all things hur??...

fast forward 10 something in the office, mom called on the handset, she had just discovered the news of the day... "what would Yang be doing without the tv set?" she sounded kinda lost seriously.. "well, i cant like go out and buy a new tv right now can i??"... so it was set. she'd get the repairman to come over... most likely they'd haul the set back to some workshop filled with lots of black, peti televisyens... poor thing. i culd already foresee the 10 year old ending up there never coming back to our abode... :S

anyhow.... so now back at home, without the tv, and before the lappie, i brought out the good ol' radio to the living hall, winding down while reading my asian geographic mag. yup, the articles in there are a damn lot.. i havent quite finished reading 'em yet...
which brings upon tonite's muse... Bio..-everything...!
biofuels... bioplastics... and pretty soon it'd be bio-everything~! (fingers crossed...)

so, what is it with bioplastics?

apparently, bioplastics are plant-based eco-plastics, or simply, your Organic-plastics..
~ made from renewable vegetable sources (instead of petroleum), bioplastics are currently already being widely used for everything from shopping bags to kitchenware... (like how the Jusco green shopping bags crumble after some months...)
and by 'renewable vegetable sources', it's often from non-food agri-products.

check these out...


"food containers made from 'polyactic acid', derived from corn starch / sugar"
http://www.packaging-gateway.com/features/feature736/

< www.bioplastics24.com
"... how plastics are made from plants!"

www.treehugger.com >

"biodegradable packaging tapes developed"

www.ecoproducts.com

"food service/ food containers for sale..."


this is pretty enlightening indeed... to know that we are heading towards greener living...

perhaps they could further bring down the costs, so that the anehs and the uncles by the road sides would one day, serve using biodegradable food containers, especially for our bungkus too...

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another itch scratched...