Students win innovation prize for chemistry with bioplastic

A team of WUR students has won the student competition in the top sector of chemistry. Their team, Perfect Package, developed a new generation of bioplastics. The jury agreed that the Honours students had found a creative way of applying chemistry to a socially relevant challenge. They had a clear research plan and achieved good results. Layla Broers, Sjoerd van Dongen and Veerle de Goederen each received a check for 1000 euros during Chains, the national chemistry congress held on 7 December. The WUR bachelor students won the student prize from three other teams. They developed the new bioplastic during their Honours Programme in the summer (WUR Resource, 13 December 2016).
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