It is high time that benign substitutes for petroleum-based plastics be researched and developed. We're poisoning the living earth, especially the oceans, and ourselves, with plastics pollution. Green chemistry and biomimicry hold great promise for homo sapiens most vexing challenges. Now if we can shift the funding from nuclear weapons modernization to life giving R&amp;D producing products like this, we can leave our descendants a livable Earth. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=materials&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="0">#materials</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=plastics&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="1">#plastics</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=biomimicry&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="2">#biomimicry</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=spiders&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="3">#spiders</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=silk&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="4">#silk</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=petroleum&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="5">#petroleum</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=pollutionprevention&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="6">#pollutionprevention</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=innovation&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="7">#innovation</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ecology&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="8">#ecology</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=greenchemistry&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6811987523947040768" data-attribute-index="9">#greenchemistry</a>

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