{"id":4010,"date":"2010-03-09T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:02:59","slug":"ibm-makes-earth-friendly-plastic-from-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/03\/09\/ibm-makes-earth-friendly-plastic-from-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM makes Earth-friendly plastic from plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100309\/bs_afp\/ussaudiarabiaitinternetchemicalenvironmentibm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4011\" title=\"100309_ibm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100309_ibm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>IBM researchers on Tuesday said they have discovered a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that saves on energy, according to Chandrasekhar &#8220;Spike&#8221; Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM&#8217;s Almaden Research Center in Northern California. Almaden and Stanford University researchers said the discovery could herald an era of sustainability for a plastics industry rife with seemingly eternal products notorious for cramming landfills and littering the planet. &#8220;This discovery and new approach using organic catalysts could lead to well-defined, biodegradable molecules made from renewable resources in an environmentally responsible way,&#8221; IBM said in a release. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100309\/bs_afp\/ussaudiarabiaitinternetchemicalenvironmentibm\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company \u2014 EthicalQuote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=14\">IBM<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100309\/bs_afp\/ussaudiarabiaitinternetchemicalenvironmentibm\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM researchers on Tuesday said they have discovered a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that saves on energy, according to Chandrasekhar &#8220;Spike&#8221; Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM&#8217;s Almaden Research Center in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ibm","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}