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Carbon (C) - plastics

Polymers – or plastics – are enduring, cheap, mouldable and versatile. So could the future be to use nature - with a little tweaking from man - to draw plastics from the atmosphere?

Polymers – or plastics – are enduring, cheap, mouldable and versatile. Yet their very durability mean they litter our landscapes. And their main raw material - crude oil - will not last forever. So could the future be to use nature - with a little tweaking from man - to draw plastics from the atmosphere, and return them at the end of life?

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