Sugar cane is used to make bioplastics used in a wide range of rigid and flexible materials including food and drink packaging, acoustical paneling and airplane parts. A few recent innovations included below.
Legos: Lego started using sugar cane-based polyethylene used in its botanical elements such as trees, bushes and leaves at the Billund, Denmark, production plant in 2018.
Electric car panels: The honeycomb structured core from sugar cane (PLA) is one of the sustainable materials being used in the body panels of circular electric cars being developed in the Netherlands.