BANGKOK, 18 February 2013 The Science and Technology Ministry is pushing
Thailand to become a bio-plastic hub of ASEAN within 3 years as well as to
improve and preserve the environment.
Science and Technology Minister Worawat
Uea-apinyakul said the ministry is cooperating with the National Innovation
Agency and the Thai Bioplastics Industry Association in helping Thai
bio-plastic entrepreneurs enhance their business capacity by transforming
cassava into bio-plastics to replace polyethylene plastics which are very
harmful to the nature. He is targeting to make Thailand the bio-plastic hub of
the ASEAN region within 3 years’ time.
The minister said that the bio-plastic
industry first started in Thailand in 2004, and has since been very profitable
given it has created up to six-fold increase in added-value for cassava.
No comments:
Post a Comment