Growing Plastic

 

Cambridge, Mass.-based Metabolix Inc. has created a variety of switchgrass that produces plastic in their leaf tissues. Metabolix recently completed greenhouse trials showing that not only they can produce plastic out of plants, but they can also use the biomass remains to produce biofuels.

 

Produced and Edited by Aspasia Daskalopoulou

Narrated by Joseph Caputo

 

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Metabolix, Inc

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