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Traditional environmental enemies food packaging and other disposable plastic items could soon be composted at home along with organic waste and not collected for landfill thanks to a new sugar-based polymer being developed at Imperial College London. The degradable polymer is made from sugars known as lignocellulosic biomass, which come from non-food crops like fast-growing trees and grasses, or renewable biomass from agricultural or food waste...
Tags: Disposable, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, environment, Environmental, Imperial College, Medical, Organic, packaging, Plastics, Polymer, Sustainable
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