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

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

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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
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vor 3 Monaten
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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