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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

PHB (biodegradable plastic)

As a part of a discussion on genetic engineering (inserting thegenes of one organism into another) we discovered PHB plastic which is created naturally by a bacterium. It is cool because it is completely biodegradeable!

Find out more here...

This is a good site to learn about the PHB plastic! http://itotd.com/articles/540/biodegradable-plastic/

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Mr. F :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey mr. forde great artical. i never knew those peanuts where made out of corn starch. Why would they pop them in their mouths pretty strange.Anyway it is really cool how now we can use plastic and somewhat know that our earth and ecosytem is safe.
Deepali P.