mattjgreenwood asked:
A. One of the subsidiaries of the Dow Group, Cargill Dow has used the power of 'green' plants for large-scale production of 'synthetic' packaging and fibre materials. The company has developed a fermentation-based technology, which allows it to create a family of polymers known as NatureWorks PLA.

Name brand companies in the fibres and packaging industries are already running test market applications, and lines of PLA-based clothing and packaging are currently on the shelf in Japan.

The process allows the...