You wouldn't necessarily expect to find haute couture at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, but this year, that's just what came strutting down a catwalk at the Toronto conference. From the sustainable biopolymer producer, Natureworks comes fiber made of corn sugar. You've heard about this process for developing plastics and packaging, but this is new territory for textiles and fashion. Fancy.
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both hopeful and a warning flag that this company is a subsidiary of Cargill, a huge name in Corporate Agriculture. It could mean that they are taking sustainability seriously, and it could mean that they are widening the net to haul in federal farm subsidies. maybe a bit of both...
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