Sugar is not only serves as a food that will become material to produce plastics.

Researchers at Imperial College London has been successful when using a sugar plants collected from molecular structure to produce a large variety of substances like plastics commonly used.

The usability of the plastic is clear, but almost 99% of plastics currently produced from fossil fuels, every year the world needs about 150 million tons of oil to meet this need. Newcomers, plastics made from oil is persistent, in the wild it can survive hundreds of years, and that is a problem for the environment.

Plastics made from sugar is different, if leave them outside for 5 years, they can break down completely, if human intervention is just a few months only.

Source Telegraph then the science expected the Products The first new type of plastic will be available on the market within 2-5 years.