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The surprising way plastics could actually help fight climate change

  • Written by Joseph Rollin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioenergy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Over 99 percent of today's plastics come from oil, but new bio-based options are becoming available.Icons by Vectors Market, Freepik and srip, CC BY

What do your car, phone, soda bottle and shoes have in common? They’re all largely made from petroleum. This nonrenewable resource gets processed into a versatile set of chemicals called polymers...

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