The bioplastic is water soluble, which is both a blessing and a curse.

生物塑料可以水解，这既有利又有弊。

That will form a kind of chitosan and bioplastic goop, which we will put into the dip-forming machine.

这就形成了一种壳聚糖糊状的生物塑料，然后放入浸塑成型机。

What you need to do is to extract the chitosan before you can use it as a bioplastic.

把它作为生物塑料之前，你要先萃取壳聚糖。

To start out, the headband is made of bioplastic.

首先，头带由生物塑料制成。

To make that bioplastic, the team uses plain old baker's yeast.

为了制造这种生物塑料，该团队使用了普通的面包酵母。

Through chemical processes, they turn that yeast into a bioplastic substance.

通过化学过程，他们将酵母转化为生物塑料物质。

Kelp is a traditional food source, number one, and it also has important commercial components in bioplastics, in pharmaceuticals.

海带是传统的食物来源， 排名第一，它在生物塑料和制药领域也具有重要的商业成分。

We found this biopolymer inside crustacean shells called chitin that you can treat in a certain way to extract and actually make a bioplastic from those shells.

我们发现甲壳动物壳里的几丁质可以用适当的方法萃取，那最终就可以用这些贝壳做生物塑料。

They invented bioplastics that are certified to biodegrade in various environments including water, with some of their plastics degrading almost as well as cellulose.

他们发明了生物塑料， 经认证可以在包括水在内的各种环境中进行生物降解，其中一些塑料的降解性几乎与纤维素一样。

Mr Mines, its chief executive, believes that this is the first time bioplastic has been used for disposable cups and lids that have to cope with hot liquid.

其首席执行官迈恩斯先生认为， 这是第一次将生物塑料用于必须应对热液体的一次性杯子和盖子。

We can also make plastic bags from these sheets by gluing them together with more of the bioplastic, which means that the bag is 100% chitosan and so it's much more easily recycled.

我们也可以通过用生物塑料把这些薄片粘合起来制作塑料袋，这样就保证了塑料袋是100％壳聚糖的，所以它更容易回收。

So when I hear you describe all the purposes of seaweed, from an ingredient in foods to eating on its own, to bioplastics, fertilizer, it sounds like the soy of the sea.

DUBNER：所以当我听到你描述海藻的所有用途时，从食物成分到单独食用，再到生物塑料、肥料， 它听起来就像海中的大豆。