Dani Bellmer, food process engineer, contributes to biosystems and agricultural engineering research at the Oklahoma State University Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center. In this episode of The Food Files, Dani explains the degradation of compostable plastics and the common challenges for breaking down plastics. The goal is to find an effective pretreatment process for the compostable plastics before they are sent to a commercial compost facility to enhance their rate of degradation.
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