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Breaking the mold

With the construction of two new manufacturing plants, the bioplastics market emerges. Daniel Grushkin reports.

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Figure 1: Plastic grass.

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Grushkin, D. Breaking the mold. Nat Biotechnol 29, 16–18 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1744

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