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Is it possible to make any kind of plastic out of sugar?

Say sugar beets for example.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Making Plastic From Sugar

    Kerry A. Dolan, 09.16.08, 11:00 AM EDT

    San Diego firm gives up petrochemicals to make plastic with sugar.

    Making plastic just got a whole lot sweeter.

    Nudged in large part by higher oil prices, a wave of innovation is sweeping the petrochemicals industry. A handful of companies large and small have been working on replacing petroleum-based ingredients in chemicals with renewable ingredients. In the latest development, Genomatica, a small, private sustainable-chemicals company in San Diego, says it can now make thousands of tons of a foundational chemical in plastics using sugar instead of a petroleum-based ingredient

    Source(s): forbes.com
  • 1 decade ago

    yes but i don't know how. I've only heard so.

  • 1 decade ago

    No no no. Definitely not.

    Source(s): No way in hell would that ever work.
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