In Italy’s ancient port city of Genoa, a laboratory table at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)  laden with green, brown and orange heaps of powder may remind one of Holi, India’s festival of colours. But this is a scene of cutting-edge research on crafting biodegradable plastics out of agro-waste, a component whose poor management in … Continue reading Turning agro-waste into environment-friendly plastics