Automobile manufacturers are coming under increasing pressure to build cars that won’t just rust away in junkyards once they’ve reached the end of the road.
Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (Coventry, England), in collaboration with Biomass Industrial Crops Ltd. (Durston, England), have discovered that, when used as filler, Miscanthus, or elephant grass, will stiffen biodegradable plastic. Moreover, there is no worry that the plastic will start to degrade while the vehicle is in use.