Comments on: Now you can grow plastic in a field. Environmental Godsend? http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/now-you-can-grow-plastic-in-a-field-environmental-godsend/217 for environmentalists who don't take themselves too seriously Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: First biofuels, now bioplastics? | Greenbang.com http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/now-you-can-grow-plastic-in-a-field-environmental-godsend/217/comment-page-1#comment-356 First biofuels, now bioplastics? | Greenbang.com Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:12:50 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=217#comment-356 [...] Similar organic material-based products already exist, but Plantic claims its technology is the first that can be simply grown in a field. More on that at Environmentalgraffiti. [...] [...] Similar organic material-based products already exist, but Plantic claims its technology is the first that can be simply grown in a field. More on that at Environmentalgraffiti. [...]

]]> By: kavalec http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/now-you-can-grow-plastic-in-a-field-environmental-godsend/217/comment-page-1#comment-347 kavalec Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:34:18 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=217#comment-347 > If this technology were to become mainstream, > might we be depriving poorer members of our > society of food? Not really. If I read the article correctly amylase corn starch is extracted from corn cobs. That makes it a biproduct of food production. And if it become valuable enough, food will become a biproduct of plastic production! > If this technology were to become mainstream,
> might we be depriving poorer members of our
> society of food?

Not really. If I read the article correctly amylase corn starch is extracted from corn cobs.

That makes it a biproduct of food production.

And if it become valuable enough, food will become a biproduct of plastic production!

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