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Green plastics made of sugar cane coming from Brazil

news.com.com — A large chemical company in Brazil, has begun to produce a version of polyethylene from sugar cane in sample quantities and start to export it in industrial quantities in late 2009. Beta Analytic, an independent firm, certified that the polyethylene, which is used to make flexible packaging, produced by...

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  • postal21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7This is cool. I would much rather pay more for sugar then oil.

    Sugar is renewable, lets see how many people realize that plastics are made partly from oil.
  • pwallroth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Does this mean that we can melt our plastic bottles into sugar? This has been a dream of mine for years (actually more like minutes). Sign me up.
  • PhantomBantam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2To anyone who is looking below the moron's post:
    This is why the new comment system is (IMO) better than before. Now, rather than have the conversation pick up here, pushing paperthin's, and postal21's comments to below half the page, this thread is practically dead.
  • Mc_Carter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This makes me happier than a green snake in a sugar cane tree.
  • PhantomBantam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not if they increase the supply of sugar.
  • SpectralSounds, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not for me it isnt. I like to fetch more than my dogs do.

    Not really.
  • Paperthin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Doesn't that just mean rising sugar costs?
  • FlagrantDrugUse, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3First comment! Holy Loch Ness Monster Balls!

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