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Three Things You Need to Know About Bioproducts

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Three Things You Need to Know About Bioproducts Everything from the makeup that you put on your face to the plastic fork that you ate with at your picnic can be made from bioplastics. Bioproducts are all around in stores, our home, and workplaces. These products are helping our environment in many ways. During this blog I would like to share how using bioproducts is going to help our environment, through harvesting from sugar crops, switching to bioplastic bags, and where you can find these products.  What is a biobased product? This is any product that is derived from starch, sugar, wood, cellulose, lignin, proteins. One common crop that a lot of people are familiar with is sugar. Crops like sugar are used to make bioproducts and no piece goes to waste. You heard that right! Every single part of a sugar crop is used for some type of purpose, making it very good for our environment. When extracting materials from sugar beets and sugarcane, they are brought to the mill for sugar extract