Tomato manufacture packaging made with the remains of plants.

THIS IS THE RESULT OF A RESEARCH CARRIED OUT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS.

The group of researchers has obtained a paste from the leaves and stems, with which you can even make cardboard.

Researchers Edwin Keijsers, Fátima Pereira da Silva and Christian Bolck, members of the “Biobased materials” research program, They have obtained a pulp based on fiber from the tomato plant, from the leaves and stems, which allows us to manufacture organic packaging that even smells like tomato.

One of the advantages, according to this group of researchers, is that greenhouses generate more than enough leaves and stems to make the necessary packaging., guaranteeing raw materials for production.

Until now, These remains were destined directly for landfills or, in the best case, to the production of organic fertilizers. With this achievement of the Wageningen researchers, in addition to saving costs, carbon emissions and the difficult management of this waste are eliminated.

Para Christian Bolck, “this is the way, using plant materials efficiently, “We have a good example of a biologically based economy.”.

Wageningen University has developed this project in collaboration with the Dutch Interprofessional Association for Horticulture., Paper Knowledge Center & Cardboard y Plant Substances Knowledge Center, with the idea that cardboard can be produced from this paste obtained from the stems and leaves of tomato plants..