<P> Bioplastics are plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, or microbiota . Bioplastic can be made from agricultural by - products and also from used plastic bottles and other containers using microorganisms . Common plastics, such as fossil - fuel plastics (also called petrobased polymers), are derived from petroleum or natural gas . Production of such plastics tends to require more fossil fuels and to produce more greenhouse gases than the production of biobased polymers (bioplastics). Most bioplastics biodegrade more readily than commodity fossel - fuel derived plastics . Bioplastics are usually derived from sugar derivatives, including starch, cellulose, lactic acid . As of 2014, bioplastics represented approximately 0.2% of the global polymer market (300 million tons). </P> <P> Note 1: Bioplastic is generally used as the opposite of polymer derived from fossil resources . </P>

Starch based food to be made into plastic