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NY Agency Role in Adirondack Mine; Why Burn Waste? Search for Sustainable Plastics
Documents reveal New York State agency’s role in Adirondacks mining proposal. The state DEC urged lawmakers and environmental groups to support a bill that paved the way for an amendment that could allow a private company to create an open pit for mining in the Adirondack.
Why are we still addicted to burning waste? MEPs are calling on the European commission to ban the incineration of recyclable and biodegradable waste by 2020 as part of the latest plan for the EU circular economy package.
The Search for Sustainable Plastics — Not from Ethane Crackers. Minneapolis — The fate of the world’s oceans may rest inside a stainless steel tank not quite the size of a small beer keg. Inside, genetically modified bacteria turn corn syrup into a churning mass of polymers that can be used to produce a wide variety of common plastics. “It’s a bit like making yogurt,” says Oliver Peoples, chief scientific officer of Metabolix, Inc. [price of corn has already risen from its use to make ethanol for fuel]
