With petroleum prices accelerating at unimaginable rates and plastics the topic of green protests everywhere, bioplastics may be the answer! And the business world is listening.
This interesting BusinessWeek article showcases a manufacturer of the new material called Metabolix and includes a video interview with founder Oliver Peoples.
"His [Peoples'] Cambridge (Mass.) company, Metabolix (MBLX), has harnessed the complex genetics of plant-cell metabolism and collected hundreds of patents on a process for manufacturing "bioplastics" in large vats of microbes. A $200million factory is under construction and could start producing Metabolix's bioplastic, called Mirel, early next year."
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