Starch based reactor, resultant products, and methods and processes relating thereto

The process of making a degradable starch-based resin comprising:

• peeling a starch-based plant feed stock selected from one or more Tapioca plants;
• extracting a quantity of starch content from the peeled starch-based feed stock;
• drying at least a portion of the quantity of starch content by substantially removing the water content from the starch content resulting in a base material in the form of a dried starch polymer;
• processing the base material in a reactor into a quantity of soft starch polymer;
• subsequent to the processing step, further polymerizing the soft starch polymer by combining and reacting in a reactive-extruder with maleic anhydride, a polyethylene-based plastic resin, a quantity of glycerol, and an oil to define a further polymerized starch, and;
• partially cross-linking the further polymerized starch with the polyethylene-based plastic resin to form the degradable starch-based resin.