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| CDs are made from polycarbonate, which is made from petroleum. |
The simple truth is that, right now, most of our plastics (including the plastics in CD-Rs and other optical media) are made from petroleum.
The bioplastics industry is still in its infancy and it will be years before it really takes hold as a viable replacement for petroleum plastics. Right now there are two big stumbling blocks to using bioplastics in disc production is (1) the limited shelf life of some bioplastics and (2) the manufacturing costs for bioplastics are still too high.
The bioplastics industry is still in its infancy and it will be years before it really takes hold as a viable replacement for petroleum plastics. Right now there are two big stumbling blocks to using bioplastics in disc production is (1) the limited shelf life of some bioplastics and (2) the manufacturing costs for bioplastics are still too high.
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