How Green is Your Plastic? - Making Safer Molecular Chains

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 18:49 in Physics & Chemistry

New biodegradable plastics from corn, beets or sugar cane may seem more environmentally friendly than those made from petroleum. But producing them is not without environmental cost. The chemistry of polymers and monomers: simply explained.

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