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- - The shift from a fossil-based economy to a renewable circular economy calls for innovative methods to create plastic building blocks, presenting a significant chance to change the plastic industry for the better.
- - Utilizing plant enzymes, which showcase the diverse biochemistry in plants, can help generate new building blocks for polymers through biotechnological approaches.
- - By deriving plastic building blocks from plants, we can create new types of plastics tailored for specific uses, supporting a future focused on sustainable, renewable materials.
Article Abstract
The transition from a linear fossil-based economy to a renewable circular economy requires a new approach to produce building blocks for plastics. This provides opportunities to reshape the plastic landscape and will positively impact the wide range of applications that make use of plastics. We propose that plant enzymes, which underlie the large biochemical diversity present in plant specialized metabolism, will facilitate the production of novel building blocks for new polymers via biotechnological processes. Thereby, plant-inspired plastic building blocks may enable the development of new plastics for targeted applications that can contribute to a future with renewable plastics.
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