In light of the growing awareness to the problem of plastics in the environment, the subject of alternatives to conventional plastic arise. “The intuition about the behavior of materials in a changing environment is irrelevant. The composition of the materials has to be very well understood, every material behaves differently,” says Prof. Ofira Ayalon, head of environment cluster at the Samuel Neaman Institute and the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental management at the University of Haifa.