This recipe tells you how to make bio-plastic using Glycerine and other ingredients in your kitchen cupboards – a lockdown recipe.
Step by step method:
- Add 1 tablespoon of cornflour to a pan
- Then add 4 tablespoons of water,
- 1 teaspoon of glycerine,
- And 1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar
- Mix together until it looks similar to milk
- Then stir over heat until it thickens and becomes clear
- Then spread onto a non stick surface
- Put in fridge to cool until solid (for a more flexible plastic) or bake for 10mins on 180 degrees and leave to cool (for a more durable, tough plastic)
- Once cooled peal off and use
With this recipe I put the material in the fridge to speed up the cooling process which resulted in a translucent, flexible bio-plastic which can tear easily. To try to make a the material tougher I mashed it up, added more of the mixture and baked it so it was thicker and more solid. This resulted in a thicker more durable bio-plastic that was still flexible but still tears if pulled apart with force. If it was baked at first or maybe just left to dry out for a few days it could be a stronger bio-plastic. This material is not waterproof.
