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Our sustainable future: A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 1969-12-31 18:00:00
Description: A new process can convert a wide variety of vegetable and animal fats and oils — ranging from lard to waste cooking oil — into a key ingredient for making plastics that currently comes from petroleum, scientists say. Their report on the first-of-its-kind process appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.
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