Bio-factory producing corn-based polymer
LOUDON, Tenn. (AP) -- Railcars filled with a new bioengineered corn-based polymer are already pulling out of chemical giant DuPont Co.'s $100 million joint-venture factory with multinational agri-processor Tate & Lyle PLC. Next stop could be the carpet in your living room.
While other companies are working on several fronts to use more renewable resources, DuPont and Tate & Lyle consider themselves several steps ahead. They tout their plant about 35 miles south of Knoxville as "visible evidence that an economy based on renewable ingredients is possible."
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This is the first time I heard of this process but this can be huge. . . i dont know the numbers of the top of my head but I could imagine that petroleum based products other than gasoline are a huge chunk of how crude oil ends up. . . it uses corn so I am a little sketchy about it but if its as promising as they say this just might be the most " most significant invention since nylon," ;)Anyone heard about this stuff before? I wonder what the carbon footprint is like?
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