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William Atkins
Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:07
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PHB was first sold, beginning in 1996, under the trade name Biopol by the Monsanto Company.
However, this project failed in 2004. Since then, the primary focus of PHB for the small biotech company has been to grow it within plants.
In 2005, Metabolix received the “Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award" fro the development and commercialization of PHB.
The PHB is built into the leaves of switchgrass, which can be easily harvested and eventually used as a renewable fuel source and, in this case, as a non-petroleum based plastic.
Learn more about the "green" award presented to Metabolix at th EPA website "Metabolix, Inc.: Producing Nature's Plastics Using Biotechnology."
And, learn more about "Plastics You Could Eat: Recycling" at FirstScience.com.
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