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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by gigatexal on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:58AM (#19357369)
Uses wood based plants hmm.. and no method if the resulting plastics are biodegradable to address our pollution problem. Still removing even more dependence on oil would be nice.
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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by eganist on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:14AM (#19358060)
> It would be an attractive plastic alternative—one that would break down naturally in the environment, and wouldn't leach hormone-mimicking compounds into water
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Re:Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from p... by gigatexal on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:28AM (#19359208)
I missed that part.
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