Castor Oil
When does plastic stop being plastic? Ezio Manzini, a sustainable design strategist, likens the rapid evolution of materials and trying to define these materials as ‘like trying to capture a family photograph when the whole family is in constant motion.’ On this basis, at what point does the definition of plastic, as a substance derived from petroleum, no longer fit with the ever-increasing range of alternative starting points and ingredients that are being developed? How far will this definition stretch when in the near future plastic may be derived from any number of raw materials, which currently range from starch to chicken feathers and now castor oil?
As the world looks beyond petrochemicals to create plastic products, one of ...
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