Plastic

Bioplastics, The Other Side of Biotech

Despite my career in finance, in college I was studying biology in order to enter the Biotech industry, but mainly due to Biotech's potential for manufacturing materials rather than in regards to drugs. While I am confident that fields of plants commercially creating complete plastics will be a reality, we still have some time. Yet a more basic form of plant-based plastics, those made from vegetable products such as vegetable oil or corn starch, is starting to peak it's head out.

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