In a recent development by scientists, they have been able to train certain bacteria to convert the most important sugars available in vegetable, fruit and garden waste effectively into products which are green like bioplastics.

By way of adapting the eating methods of these bacteria which finally helped them train the bacteria they were successful in converting sugars to green products which can be further processed to avoid the wastage of any bio-waste.

The research was conducted by two scientists NWO and TU Delft Researcher Jean-Paul Meijnen. "Unfortunately, the production of plastics from bio-wastes is still quite an expensive process, because the waste material is not fully utilized," Meijnen said.

One such material is the lignocellulose which is the complicated combination of lignin and cellulose which is present in the stalks and leaves of plants which provides rigidity in plants.

The bio-waste material is made up by 80 percent of sugars which is formed by the pre-treatment of these bio-wastes causing the production of different kinds of sugars like glucose, xylose and arabinose.