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Texas A&M University

TAMU Plastics

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Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley holds a Texas-shaped sample of her team's biodegradable natural polymer that could prove to be a game-changer for the world's plastics pollution problem, currently estimated in excess of 10 million metric tons and growing.

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Texas A&M University College of Science

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