{"id":27943,"date":"2024-11-13T05:33:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27943"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:12:28","slug":"bio-derived-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bio-derived-foam\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-Derived Foam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bio-Derived Foam:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bio-derived foam offers a sustainable alternative to plastic materials used in traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fast-moving-consumer-goods-fmcg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)<\/a> packaging.<\/li>\n<li>The foam is made from <strong>bio-based epoxy resins<\/strong>, made from non-edible oils approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and <strong>hardeners derived from tea leaves.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It offers industries an <strong>environmentally responsible alternative<\/strong> to conventional expanded polystyrene (EPS) and polyurethane foam.<\/li>\n<li>The new foam&#8217;s unique chemical structure features dynamic covalent bonds that can <strong>break and reform under external stimuli,<\/strong> allowing the foams to be mechanically reprocessed or dissolved in eco-friendly solvents without losing strength.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike conventional packaging materials that persist in landfills for centuries, these bio-foams can <strong>disintegrate within three hours<\/strong> when exposed to eco-friendly solvents at 80\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>It disintegrates safely in landfills <strong>without contaminating groundwater<\/strong>, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional plastic foams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The Indian foam market is currently valued at $7.9 billion, is expected to reach $11.1 billion by 2032, according to an analysis report by \u2018Research and Markets&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>With less than 1% of the 2.3 million tonnes of plastic foam produced annually being recycled, this innovation <strong>addresses a pressing environmental challenge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Resin?<\/h3>\n<p>Resins are vicious, liquid polymers derived from organic or synthetic sources. Their benefit centres on their ability to transition from a liquid into a customisable solid, homogeneous structure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/karnataka\/bengaluru\/iisc-researchers-develop-recyclable-eco-friendly-bio-derived-foam-for-fmcg-packaging-3270469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IISc researchers develop recyclable, eco-friendly bio-derived foam for FMCG packaging<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-Derived Foam offers a sustainable alternative to plastic materials used in traditional Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) packaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}