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Bioplastics: Environmentally Unfriendly, Contributing To The Food Crisis
About those bioplastic bags - you know, the ones you've been using to assuage your eco-conscious guilt - turns out not only are they not as green as you think, they could also be partially responsible for the global food crisis. A worldwide effort by bag-heavy industries to replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based plastics could actually lead to more environmental problems, according to a study by the Guardian UK. More »
8:00 PM on Sat Apr 26 2008
By Elaine Chow
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