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Plastic and fuel that grows on trees

by Pat Coate | May 26, 2009

Biofuels continue to steal the spotlight when it comes to the search for a renewable, environmentally friendly replacement for crude oil.

Now chemists have learned how to convert plant biomass directly into a chemical building block that can not only be used to produce fuel, but also plastics, polyester and industrial chemicals cheaply and efficiently.

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