Building and animal feeding are OK… popcorn hardened packaging

A research team at the University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) in Germany has succeeded in making popcorn from the packaging material that has been made of foamed Styrole so far. This makes it biodegradable and can also be used as animal food.

Developer Professor Alireza Kharazipour said the idea came to mind when she bought popcorn at a movie theater 10 years ago. Corn is finely crushed, inflated with compressed steam, mixed with plant-derived protein, used as an adhesive, and finally molded.

Once completed, it also has the advantage of absorbing heat and making it harder to burn than foamed citrol. After use, it can be composted and biogas production is possible. The raw material is a defective product that came out when making corn flakes, so there is no problem with feeding it to animals.

It is said that this popcorn packaging material is used as a packaging material for packaging that handles grain, and is wholesaled to a building material group by taking advantage of its heat resistance to be used as non-combustible materials for construction. It can also be used for packaging and construction. Related information can be found here.